Permanent Record

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.

Edward Snowden, omul care a riscat totul pentru a expune sistemul de supraveghere in masa al guvernului SUA, dezvaluie pentru prima data povestea vietii sale, inclusiv modul in care a ajutat la construirea acelui sistem si ce l-a motivat sa incerce sa-l darame. In 2013, Edward Snowden, in varsta de douazeci si noua de ani, a socat lumea cand a rupt legatura cu institutia americana de informatii si a dezvaluit ca guvernul Statelor Unite urmarea in secret mijloacele de a colecta fiecare apel telefonic, mesaj text si e-mail.