4.5
Biographies
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
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. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very 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 extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online – a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
© 2019 Macmillan Digital Audio (Audiobook): 9781529035681
Release date
Audiobook: 17 September 2019
4.5
Biographies
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
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. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very 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 extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online – a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
© 2019 Macmillan Digital Audio (Audiobook): 9781529035681
Release date
Audiobook: 17 September 2019
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Vinod
18 Oct 2023
What ever may be it was informative for sure while at the same time not much enthusiastic to read through! May be because I’m from a computer science background, I might have more expectations!
Sharmila
1 Aug 2021
Brilliant!
Sujit
17 Jun 2022
Interesting and informative. Author laid his life on the line for common citizen.
அரி
14 Aug 2021
இவரது உணர்வுகள் அதிக மதிப்புமிகவை. அமெரிக்கா இவரை மன்னியுங்கள்.It's Snowden Effect 🤯
Prince
15 Jun 2023
Amazing book, not much Tech but real life story. I recommend to everyone who is a son, daughter, father, mother, husband or wife & to all lovers.
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