Эдвард Сноуден: Permanent Record (Young Readers Edition): How One Man Exposed the Truth about Government Spying and Digital Security

Edward Snowden was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and grew up in the shadow of Fort Meade, Maryland. A systems engineer by training, he served as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency and worked as a contractor for the National Security Agency. He has received numerous awards for his public service, including the Right Livelihood Award, the German Whistleblower Prize, the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, and the Carl von Ossietzky Medal from the International League for Human Rights. Currently, he serves as president of the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. You can sign up for email updates here.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Snowden, Edward J., 1983- author.

Title: Permanent record: how one man exposed the truth about government spying and digital security / Edward Snowden.

Description: Young readers edition, First edition. | New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references. | Audience: Ages 10-14 | Summary: “In 2013, 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, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance reveals to a new generation how he helped build that system, what motivated him to try to bring it down, and how kids can protect their privacy in this digital age of indiscriminate data collection”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020022084 | ISBN 9781250767912 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Snowden, Edward J., 1983—Juvenile literature. | Whistle blowing—United States—Juvenile literature. | Leaks (Disclosure of information)—United States—Juvenile literature. | Electronic surveillance—United States—Juvenile literature. | United States. National Security Agency Officials and employees—Juvenile literature. | Government information—United States—Juvenile literature.

Classification: LCC JF1525.W45 S65 2021 | DDC 327.12730092--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020022084

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First hardcover edition, 2021

eBook edition, 2021

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