Beschreibung
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 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 candour, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
'Fascinating' Observer
'Riveting' Financial Times
'Gripping' Washington Post
'Reads like a literary thriller' New York Times
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 candour, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
'Fascinating' Observer
'Riveting' Financial Times
'Gripping' Washington Post
'Reads like a literary thriller' New York Times
über die Autoren
Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden wurde 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, geboren und wuchs im Schatten des NSA-Hauptquartiers in Fort Meade, Maryland, auf. Als ausgebildeter Systemingenieur hat er für CIA und NSA gearbeitet. Für seinen Dienst an der Öffentlichkeit hat er mehrere Preise erhalten, darunter den Right Livelihood Award für die Gestaltung einer besseren Welt, den German Whistleblower Prize, den Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling und die Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medaille der Internationalen Liga für Menschenrechte. In den USA wird Snowden per Haftbefehl gesucht.