Leaks

• Information wants to be free. No more secret

•  When something is allowed to drain from desired passage it is not called leak. But when it passes from undesired hole or way then it is a leak.
•  Hence a leak is flow of liquid from undesired hole or way.These days it  (Leaks) is  more preferred in information and technology. So it can be said that it is the allowance of secret information to become generally known.
• Every one wants to know about others . When some source are valid and some can be invalid. People can get information from secret window rather than the valid doors.Hence people are always eager to know the information of others.  
• This may be due to the stiff competition. No one wants to loose the race. Every one is trying to be superb by defeating others.

Snowden

• Edward Snowden worked for the National Security Agency through subcontractor in NSA's Oahu office.
•  After only three months, Snowden began collection top secreted documents regarding NSA domestic surveillance practices, which he found disturbing. 
• After Snowden fled to Hong Kong, China, newspapers began printing the documents that he had leaked to them.
• He is best known for revealing details of classified United States government surveillance programs. 
• He has been charged of " theft of government property , unauthorized communication of national defense information , and willful communication of classified intelligence to be an unauthorized person.

"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."