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Permanent Record

A Memoir of a Reluctant Whistleblower

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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.

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Kritikerstimmen

Riveting, pacy
The world's most famous whistleblower
Fascinating
A riveting account . . . Reads like a literary thriller
Gripping
His disclosures of mass surveillance and bulk collection of personal information are as relevant now as they were in 2013
Full of surprises . . . A deeply reluctant whistleblower . . . he deserves our thanks
Well-written
A very significant figure in the history of intelligence
Thriller plot
A thoughtful and elegantly written book (Steven Poole, New Statesmen)
Alle Sterne
Am relevantesten
So serious and so romantic!
Its impossibly not to believe him. He does not
Leave out any
Details. This will be a book to read in school.

Must read

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Although the news on the incredible data collection hunger of the NSA was well known to me (and everyone) through the acts of Edward Snowden, reading (or listening) to this book was extremely worthwhile, besides being rather entertaining! I now better understand the overall context of how the situation has developed that allowed Ed to even get the understanding himself for the unconstitutional act of mass surveillance, and his urge to share this information publicly through selected journalists. This certainly woke me up (again), after the outrage from the news in 2013 has died down a bit. Definitely a great book!

Wake up call

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Snowden, Zuboff und Thunberg sind echte Kandidaten für einen Nobel Friedenspreis! Sie alle zeigen auf den Kern unseres Zeitgeistes: Macht ist geil, Schwäche ist für "losers".,

Endlich!

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an autobiography of one of the most important "heroes" of our timey, with accent if the compelling arguments behind the disclosure of one of most widespread scandals of history.

one of the most defining stories of the informatio

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Very human story about the life that led to the leak that caused one of the most controversial USA scandals. Beside being very human, this book is quite educational in matters of IT concepts. Very interesting glimpse of the wheels that turn being USA National Security agencies.

Refreshing, Human, inspiring

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