Edward Snowden
American whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983) · United States · Actors
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Something wrong?In 2013, he walked out of his NSA contractor job with thousands of classified files and handed them to reporters in Hong Kong - an act that split the world between those who saw a whistleblower and those who saw a traitor, and landed him in permanent Russian exile under espionage charges.
A life in dates
Orwell: 2+2=5Film2024
LulaFilm2023
Cybersurveillance, un impact planétaireFilm2022
IthakaFilm2021“When you first enter on duty at the CIA, they take you in a dark room. It’s a very solemn ceremony.”In their wordsEdward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald & Chris Hedges on NSA Leaks, Assange & Protecting a Free Internet, hosted by Amy Goodman, War on Terror
SpycraftSeries, 2021
Behind the HeadlinesFilm, 20212020“There's good cops out there. I had a lot of interactions with cops as a young man that were nothing but positive. It's not that the police as an idea are the enemy.”In their words15 September 2020Joe Rogan Experience #1536 (September 15, 2020)“If you ever wonder where we're at on the dystopia scale, consider that it's normal to believe the government is spying on you, and crazy to believe that they're not.”In their wordsMay 19, 2020 on Twitter“When Facebook is sort of grinding down your privacy, you don't see it. And although you will feel it, you won't feel it for years....”In their words20 March 2020Why Does Online Privacy Matter? NPR TED Radio Hour March 20, 2020“And then they sell... or... rent this capability. Facebook says they don't sell data, which is absurd because...they're collecting all of the data and then they're selling...”In their words20 March 2020Why Does Online Privacy Matter? NPR TED Radio Hour March 20, 2020“Going back to 2009, they're storing this. They have the last 10 years of your movements, and everyone you know, more or less...”In their words20 March 2020Why Does Online Privacy Matter? NPR TED Radio Hour March 20, 2020
Shelter in Place with Shane SmithSeries, 20202019
Cybergeist the Movie - Game OverFilm2018
All Creatures WelcomeFilm, Edward Snowden2017
Код доступаSeries
Meeting SnowdenFilm, 20172016Ossietzky PrizeAwardThe Glass of ReasonAward
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. StoneFilm, 20162015Bjørnson PrizeAwardSUMA AwardAwardTrack StoriesSeries
CyberWar ThreatFilm, 20152014Carl von Ossietzky MedalAwardFritz Bauer PrizeAwardRidenhour Truth-Telling PrizeAwardRight Livelihood AwardAwardStuttgart Peace PrizeAward
America's Surveillance StateSeries, 2014
Last Week Tonight with John OliverSeries, 2014
CitizenfourFilm, 20142013Bert-Donnepp-PreisAwardFritz Bauer PrizeAwardSam Adams AwardAwardWhistleblower PrizeAward
PRISM: WhistleblowerFilm, 2013
Terms and Conditions May ApplyFilm, 20132011
Mentiras verdaderasSeries2004Snowden Exclusive: The InterviewFilm, Himself1983Born21 June 1983Also in Deutsch
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Slide from an NSA presentation on "Google Cloud Exploitation" from its MUSCULAR program;[129] the sketch shows where the "Public Internet" meets the internal "Google Cloud" where user data resides.[130]
Data visualization of U.S. intelligence black budget (2013)
PRISM: a clandestine surveillance program under which the NSA collects user data from companies including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and YouTube
Hong Kong rally to support Snowden, June 15, 2013
Ecuador embassy car at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on June 23, 2013
Holder Letter
Criminal ComplaintIn their own words 10
, I grew up in the shadow of government. Both my parents worked for the government, and I expected that I would, as well. September 11th happened when I was 18 years old...
When you first enter on duty at the CIA, they take you in a dark room. It’s a very solemn ceremony.
There's good cops out there. I had a lot of interactions with cops as a young man that were nothing but positive. It's not that the police as an idea are the enemy.
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Born in 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Snowden moved through community college and a never-finished master's at Liverpool before entering intelligence work - first the CIA in 2006, then Dell managing NSA systems in 2009, then a two-month stint at Booz Allen Hamilton in 2013 with one purpose: gather more documents. That May he flew to Hong Kong and met journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, and Ewen MacAskill, releasing thousands of files that exposed global surveillance programs run by the NSA and Five Eyes with help from telecom companies and European governments. The U.S. unsealed espionage charges on his birthday, June 21, revoked his passport, and he spent a month stranded in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport before Russia granted asylum. He became president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation in 2016, married Lindsay Mills in 2017, published his memoir Permanent Record in 2019, and watched a federal court rule in 2020 that one of the programs he'd exposed was illegal. In 2022, he became a Russian citizen.
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