Permanent Record

13 hrs. 20 min.

Language Russian

Author Edward Snowden

Narrator Vladimir Knyazev

Description

In 2013, Edward Snowden, a CIA agent and an NSA employee, shocked the world by severing ties with American intelligence and disclosing highly classified information. He revealed evidence that the U.S. government had put in place a global surveillance system, collecting citizens’ calls, text messages, and emails from around the world. In his “Personal File,” Snowden tells readers his story for the first time: how he helped create this system of mass monitoring and then, wracked with guilt, tried to destroy it.

Snowden’s memoirs are the biography of a boy who grew up in the free Internet and ultimately became its conscience and defender. It is a deeply personal story in which, like in a mirror, an astonishing transformation is reflected—not only of America, but of the whole world. By combining touching accounts of his “hacker” youth and the rise of the Internet with the ruthless “internal workings” of American intelligence, Snowden’s book offers the most important memoirs of the digital age.