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Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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 how he helped to build...
2) Citizenfour
Publisher
RADiUS TWC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (114 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access, this gripping behind-the-scenes chronicle follows award winning director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald2s remarkable encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Investigative reporter for The Guardian and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald, provides an in-depth look into the NSA scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself, this book explores the extraordinary cooperation between private industry and the NSA, and the far-reaching consequences of the government's surveillance...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 3 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frontline investigates the secret history of the unprecedented surveillance program that began in the wake of September 11th and continues today. As big technology companies encouraged users to share more and more information about their lives, they created a trove of data that could be useful not simply to advertisers, but also to the government. The revelations of NSA contractor Edward Snowden would push Silicon Valley into the center of a debate...
5) Snowden
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
A Seven Stories Press first edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance technologies, and the recent history of government intrusion. Rall...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 350 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable the United States' national security systems have become.
7) Snowden
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, A Division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: "I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the United States government. His whistleblowing has shaken the leaders...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvii, 426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on Snowden's behalf. Gellman took his own path. Snowden and his...
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