Edward Snowden

Permanent Record

Buch

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Now, Snowden reveals for the first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extra… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5290-3569-8
EAN: 9781529035698
Produktnummer: 33148643
Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H20.0 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.5 cm 250 g
Gewicht: 250
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Edward Snowden was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and grew up in the shadow of Fort Meade. A systems engineer by training, he served as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, and worked as a contractor for the National Security Agency. He has received numerous awards for his public service, including the Right Livelihood Award, the German Whistleblower Prize, the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, and the Carl von Ossietzky Medal from the International League of Human Rights. Currently, he serves as president of the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Permanent Record is his revealing memoir.