PERMANENT RECORD
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.
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.
The world's most famous whistleblower ― Guardian
A riveting account... Reads like a literary thriller ― New York Times
Riveting, pacy ― Financial Times
Fascinating ― Observer
Gripping ― Washington Post
His disclosures of mass surveillance and bulk collection of personal information are as relevant now as they were in 2013 ― Guardian
Full of surprises . . . A deeply reluctant whistleblower . . . he deserves our thanks ― Nation
Well-written ― The Economist
A very significant figure in the history of intelligence ― Sunday Times
[A] thriller plot ― London Review of Books
A thoughtful and elegantly written book -- Steven Poole, New Statesmen
An extraordinary book -- Cory Doctorow
Автор | Edward Snowden |
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Страници | 352 |
Корица | мека |
Език | английски |
Година | 2020 |
Дата на получаване | 17.09.2020 г. |
Издателство | PAN |
ID на книга | 24523569 |
ISBN | 9781529035698 |
Категории | Биографии Книги на английски език Нови книги |
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