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Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former American NSA intelligence contractor and a whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. He became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2022.
Jun 18, 2024 · Edward Snowden, American intelligence contractor who in 2013 revealed the existence of secret wide-ranging information-gathering programs conducted by the NSA. He was charged with espionage and subsequently sought refuge in Russia. Learn more about Snowden’s life and career.
Follow @snowden, the official account of the former NSA contractor and whistleblower who exposed mass surveillance and sparked a global debate.
Apr 2, 2014 · Edward Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a computer programmer who worked as a subcontractor for the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden collected top-secret documents regarding NSA...
Sep 16, 2019 · Edward Snowden, arguably the world’s most famous whistle-blower, is a man who lived behind plenty of pseudonyms before putting his true name to his truth-telling: When he was first communicating...
Jan 17, 2014 · Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the CIA, left the US in late May after leaking to the media details of extensive internet and phone surveillance by American intelligence. Mr Snowden,...
Jun 11, 2013 · Snowden will go down in history as one of America’s most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning.
Sep 3, 2020 · A National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program has been ruled unlawful, seven years after it was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Sep 19, 2019 · In 2013, Edward Snowden was an IT systems expert working under contract for the National Security Agency when he traveled to Hong Kong to provide three journalists...
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.
- Edward Snowden
