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whistleblower Edward Snowden
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"I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and I witnessed the N.S.A. violating it on a massive scale.
I knew what I had to do: I kept my oath."
"Rights exist to protect the minority from the majority."
— Edward Snowden
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Edward Snowden entry at Wikipedia
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Edward Snowden credits [since 2013] at Internet Movie Database
Working Minds / Activism Dept. / The Right To Privacy Page
Privacy Timeline
1965 June: Landmark privacy decision Griswold v. Connecticut.
1971 June: The 'Pentagon Papers' were published by the The New York Times and The Washington Post, followed by the persecution of Daniel Ellsberg.
The PATRIOT Act enacted on 26 October 2001
PATRIOT Act II (USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005) enacted on 8 March 2005
The USA Freedom Act enacted on 2 June 2015
2010 October: 'Iraq War Logs' documents published on Wikileaks, followed by the persecution of Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange.
2 0 1 3 Events
2013 June 6: Publication in The Washington Post and The Guardian of London U.K. of leaked documents describing the N.S.A.'s broad-based unwarranted surveillance programs, including PRISM. Whistleblower Edward Snowden obtained a leave of absence from his civilian job with Booz Allen Hamilton in Hawaii in May, released those documents to the journalists, and fled to Hong Kong. He went undercover and has been seeking political asylum, first in Iceland, then South America, then in Russia. He has been on temporary asylum in Moscow since 2013.
Edward Snowden won the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence [est. 2001] in 2013, the Right Livelihood Award, the German Whistleblower Prize,
the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, and the Carl von Ossietzky Medal from the International League of Human Rights.
2 0 1 4 Events
late 2014: Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg travelled to Moscow to meet with N.S.A. whistleblower Edward Snowden; one result was a series
of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with Snowden {see 2016 book below}.
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2 0 1 8 Events
2018 May 25: The General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union goes into effect; the law was adopted in April 2016 with a two-year transition period. The new rules on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union give control over their personal data to citizens and residents and are being adopted by major and minor internet businesses in America and elsewhere so that they can continue to operate in European countries.
2 0 1 9 Events
2019 Oct 30: Official publication date of Snowden's memoir "Permanent Record"; the book had languished at #25 in pre-order but jumped to
#1 ranking in the world on the day of publication.
browse DVDs about Edward Snowden at Amazon
 | "The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of The World's Most Wanted Man" [2014] by Luke Harding Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [2/2014] for $7.44 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [2/2014] for $7.83 |
 | "The Edward Snowden Affair: Exposing The Politics and Media Behind The N.S.A. Scandal" [2014] by Michael Gurnow
Kindle Edition from Blue River Press [4/2014] for $8.69 Blue River Press 8¾x6 pb [4/2014] for $9.96 |
 | "No Place To Hide: Edward Snowden, The NSA, and The U.S. Surveillance State" [2014] by Glenn Greenwald Kindle Edition from Metropolitan/Macmillan [5/2014] for $10.99 Metropolitan Books hardcover [5/2014] for $16.20 |
 | "Blood On His Hands: The True Story of Edward Snowden" [2/2015] by Cliff Kincaid, with Martin Edwin Anderson 90-page diatribe, a pile of opinion not supported by the facts; Kincaid is founder & president of America’s Survival, Inc. [est. 1998], a reactionary public policy organization with the stated purpose of 'fighting global Jihad, the International Communist Movement, and the United Nations' — sentient beings will not buy this over-priced screed |
 | "The Snowden Reader" anthology [2015] Edited by David P. Fidler, Foreword by Sumit Ganguly Kindle Edition from Indiana Univ Press [4/2015] for $16.49 Indiana Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/2015] for $21.34 Indiana Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2015] for $81.49 {sic} |
 | "Surveillance After Snowden" [2015] by David Lyon Kindle Edition from Polity Press [10/2015] for $7.69 Polity Press UK 8x5½ pb [8/2015] for $12.95 Polity Press UK 8½x5¾ hardcover [8/2015] for $34.99 |
 | "Snowden" [2015] by Ted Rall Award-winning journalist Rall has created a compact, sympathetic profile of Edward Snowden that uses simple & unobtrusive illustrations as background to a narrative that demonstrates how George Orwell's "1984" became fact rather than fiction and how one man's conscience and pursuit of justice pushed him into civil disobedience and political exile. Kindle Edition from Seven Stories Press [8/2015] for $8.85 Seven Stories Press 7x5 pb [8/2015] for $11.21 |
 | "Things That Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations" [2016] by Arundhati Roy & John Cusack In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg travelled to Moscow to meet with N.S.A. whistleblower Edward Snowden; one result was this series of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with Snowden Kindle Edition from Haymarket Books [10/2016] for $8.30 Haymarket Books 7½x5¼ pb [10/2016] for $8.74 |
 | "Time of The Octopus" [2017] by Anatoly Kucherena (Snowden's Moscow attorney) fictional account 'based on the true story of whistleblower Edward Snowden' Kindle Edition from Glagoslav Publns [2/2017] for $9.99 Glagoslav Publns BV 9x6 pb [4/2019] for $25.50 Glagoslav Publns BV 9x6 hardcover [1/2017] for $15.78 Eastern Publng Co. Ltd. Chinese-language pb [1/2017] for $12.99 |
 | "Edward Snowden: America's Whistleblower - Sinner or Saint?" [2017] by Phil Coleman 113-page Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [8/2017] for $2.99 127-page indep 8x5 pb [8/2017] for $10.99 "Whistleblower: Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden - 2 Books in 1" [2018]
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 | "Permanent Record" memoir [2019] by Edward Snowden 
"The Book The Government Does Not Want You To Read" jumped to #1 around the world on the day of publication Kindle Edition from Metropolitan/Macmillan [9/2019] for $14.99 Metropolitan Books 9¼x6 hardcover [9/2019] for $23.99 |
Related Reading Material
'mass surveillance in U.S.A.' entry at Wikipedia
search books on 'right to privacy + surveillance' {returns 360+ items} at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Dragnet-Nation-Security-Relentless-Surveillance/dp/0805098070/
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Nsa-Americas-Cyber-Secrets/dp/B0077PTWGE/
http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Hide-Tradeoff-between-Security/dp/0300172338/
http://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Age-Big-Data-Recognizing/dp/1442225459/
http://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Big-Ideas-Small-Books/dp/0312554842/
http://www.amazon.com/Spies-Hire-Secret-Intelligence-Outsourcing/dp/0743282256/
http://www.amazon.com/The-NSA-Report-Security-Changing/dp/0691163200/
http://www.amazon.com/The-Whistleblowers-Handbook-Step-Step/dp/0762763736/
http://www.amazon.com/Top-Secret-America-American-Security/dp/0316182206/
http://www.amazon.com/Whistleblowers-Broken-Lives-Organizational-Power/dp/0801487803/
 | "The Puzzle Palace: Inside The National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization - The Book The NSA Tried to Suppress" [1982] by James Bamford A history of the slippery security agency up to the early years of the Reagan Administration Penguin Books 7¾x5 pb [9/83] for $15.61 Houghton Mifflin 9x6 hardcover [9/82] out of print/50+ used |
 | "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of The Ultra-Secret National Security Agency - From The Cold War Thru The Dawn of A New Century" [2001] by James Bamford
Kindle Edition from Anchor/Random House [2007 edition] for $11.81 Anchor Books 8x5¼ pb [4/2002] for $12.43 Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2001] out of print/200+ used |
 | "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret N.S.A. From 9/11 To The Eavesdropping On America" [2008 bestseller] by James Bamford
Kindle Edition from Anchor/Random House [10/2008] for $9.71 Anchor 8x5¼ pb [7/2009] for $10.22 Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2008] out of print/100+ used |
 | "The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of The National Security Agency" [2009] by Matthew M. Aid Kindle Edition from Bloomsbury Press [7/2009] for $8.49 Bloomsbury Press 8¼x5½ pb [6/2010] out of print/40+ used Bloomsbury Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2009] out of print/many used |
 | "N.S.A. Secrets: Government Spying In The Internet Age" for Kindle [2013] by The Washington Post a series of newspaper articles that won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism (Public Service) in 2014 Kindle Edition from Diversion Books [12/2013] for $2.99 {sic} |
 | "Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance - A Graphic Novel" [2017] by Pratap Chatterjee & Khalil Bendib
Verax means 'truth-teller' and was one of Edward Snowden's code names; this book is a sweeping graphic history of electronic surveillance since the attack on 9/11 unleashed electronic spying by the U.S. government on a massive worldwide scale Kindle Edition from Metropolitan Books/Macmillan [10/2017] for $11.99 Metropolitan Books 9¼x7 pb [10/2017] for $17.00 |
movies about Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden credits [since 2013] at Internet Movie Database
browse DVDs about Edward Snowden at Amazon
"Edward Snowden, A Truth Unveiled Documentary" [uploaded Oct 2014]
documentary edited from TV news footage, with lots of webshots [42:55] at YouTube
"Chasing Edward Snowden" documentary [2016] from 'Official Anonymous'
watch full 7/2016 movie [57:59] online at YouTube
Oliver Stone's "Snowden" [Open Road Films release September 2016]
 | "One Nation Under Surveillance For Liberty and Justice For All" Co-written & directed by Oliver Stone; co-written by Kieran Fitzgerald, based on two books; starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt {as Edward Snowden}, Shailene Woodley, Scott Eastwood, Nicolas Cage, Timothy Olyphant, Zachary Quinto, Melissa Leo, Joely Richardson, Rhys Ifans, Tom Wilkinson, Ben Schnetzer, Keith Stanfield, Parker Sawyers, Christian Contreras, Jaymes Butler, Marisol Correa, Robert Firth, Demetri Goritsas, Lincoln Potwin, Christy Meyer, Jamie Hodge & Brandon Marc Higa DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers at YouTube: 6/2015 teaser trailer [1:26] • 4/2016 trailer [2:40] |
stageplays, other media
Edward Snowden interview via telepresence robot at March 2014 TED Conference in Whistler, BC, Canada [35:17]
rebuttal/response to Snowden interview by N.S.A. Deputy Director Richard Ledgett from Fort Meade, MD [33:34]
Edward Snowden and ACLU at SXSW [3/2014]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIhS9aB-qgU [1.01.22]
Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden in class via internet link on 20 October 2014
watch full interview [1:03:01] online at YouTube
News anchors Amy Goodman & Juan González of "Democracy Now" interviewed Edward Snowden by remote camera at his home in Moscow Russia
in September 2019; that interview was broadcast on two days and in six parts, all now available on the "Democracy Now" website.
"Financial Censorship Is Still Censorship: Edward Snowden Slams Justice Dept. Lawsuit Against Him" [9/26/2019]
watch interview part 1 [17:13]
"Edward Snowden Condemns Trump’s Mistreatment of Whistleblower Who Exposed Ukraine Scandal" [9/26/2019]
watch interview part 2 [28:10] Ed starts at 12:15
"Permanent Record: Why NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Risked His Life To Expose The Surveillance State" [9/26/2019]
watch interview part 3 [59:02] Ed starts at 12.25
"Edward Snowden: Private Contractors Play Key Role In U.S. Intelligence’s Creeping Authoritarianism" [9/30/2019]
watch interview part 4 [29:34]
"Snowden Reveals How He Secretly Exposed NSA Criminal Wrongdoing Without Getting Arrested" [9/30/2019]
watch interview part 5 [45:40]
"Whistleblower Edward Snowden On Trump, Obama & How He Ended Up In Russia To Avoid U.S. Extradition" [9/30/2019]
watch interview part 6 [59:04]
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_podcast_file/al_ep_ed_snowden_20190930_m3.mp3 [53.12] In his new memoir, "Permanent Record," Edward Snowden tells the story of his evolution: A child of civil servants, he fell hard and fast for the internet of the 90s, ascended the intelligence community, and became one of the most famous whistleblowers in U.S. history. He joins ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero for a live taping of At Liberty at the Brooklyn Public Library. Podcast: At Liberty Edward Snowden's Permanent Record (ep. 66) October 1, 2019
family & friends & colleagues
wife lindsay - relationship since 2003, married ??
Moscow attorney Anatoly Kucherena
representing Snowden since mid-2013; wrote fictional account "Time of The Octopus" due in 2015, publd 1/2017 {see below}
official website •
Wikipedia
ACLU-connected lawyer ben weisner
ACLU-connected author joshua cohen
journalist Glenn Greenwald
L i n k s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
National Whistleblowers Center: http://www.whistleblowers.org/
National Security Whistleblowers Coalition: http://www.nswbc.org/
July 30 is National Whistleblower Appreciation Day [est. 2013] in U.S.A.
N.S.A. whistleblower Edward Joseph Snowden
entry at Wikipedia •
bio page at TED.com
here on the whistleblower Edward Snowden Page at Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment
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