Edward Snowden
Also known as Edward Joseph Snowden, Ed Snowden, Edward J. Snowden
American whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983)
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Edward Snowden is an American former contractor for the National Security Agency who became a whistleblower by publicly revealing classified information about the government's mass surveillance programs. His disclosures sparked major debates about privacy, government oversight, and the balance between national security and individual rights.
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Edward Snowden is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without prior authorization. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence…
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- The Six Billion Dollar Man — Self2025
- Orwell: 2+2=5 — Self (archive footage)2025
- Lula — Self (archive footage)2024
- Cybersurveillance, un impact planétaire — Self2023
- Ithaka — Self (archive footage)2022
- Behind the Headlines — Self2021
- Reality Winner — Self2021
- Spycraft — Self2021
- Shelter in Place with Shane Smith — Self2020
- HAK_MTL — Himself2019
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Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former United States National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence contractor who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.
Born in 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, he attended a community college and later enrolled in a master's programme at the University of Liverpool without finishing it. In 2006 he started working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and then moved to Dell in 2009, where he managed computer systems for the NSA. In 2013, he worked for two months at Booz Allen Hamilton, with the purpose of gathering more NSA documents.