The White House-appointed panel’s report on National Security Agency reforms was released just two days after a federal judge ruled that the bulk collection of telephone data by the government is “almost Orwellian.” Speaking before a European Union hearing on mass surveillance, journalist Glenn Greenwald said the NSA’s goal is the elimination of individual privacy.

Glenn Greenwald: “The ultimate goal of the NSA is, along with its most loyal, one might say, subservient junior partner, the British agency GCHQ, when it comes to the reason why the system of suspicionless surveillance is being built — and the objective of this system is nothing less than the elimination of individual privacy worldwide.”