Edward Snowden
Whistleblower and memoirist
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who leaked classified National Security Agency documents in 2013. He later wrote the memoir Permanent Record.
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Born 1983 in Elizabeth City, United States
About Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden was born in 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. He worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA). In 2013 he gave journalists thousands of secret NSA documents, which exposed global surveillance programs and sparked public debate about security and privacy. He has received awards including the Right Livelihood Award and the German Whistleblower Prize. He became president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation in 2016. His memoir Permanent Record was published in 2019.