Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden

Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden is an American computer professional who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency, starting in June 2013. He is born June 21, 1983 now his age 31 His born city is Elizabeth, North Carolina, United States.  His study completed from Arundel High School in 1998. Anne Arundel Community, Collage 1999-2001 and Anne Arundel Community, Collage (2004–2005) from University of Liverpool.

When his career started firstly he is a former system administrator for the centre intelligence agency (CIA), and counter intelligence agency trainer at the (DIA) Defences intelligence agency. He is later work for private intelligence contractor in Dell inside an NSA outpost in Japan.

In March 2013, he join BOOZ Allen Hamilton inside the NSA centre Hawaii. It is consulting firm. In June 2013, he came to international attention after disclosing to several media outlets thousand in document leaked where he is working as a contractor in dell.

 Snowden's leaked documents revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many of them run by the NSA and the Five Eyes with the cooperation of tele communication companies and European governments. Snowden has been variously called a hero, a whistleblower, and a traitor.  His disclosures have fueled debates over mass surveillance, government secrecy, and the balance between national security and information privacy.

Two court rulings since the initial leaks have split on the constitutionality of the NSA's bulk collection of telephone metadata.

On May 20, 2013, he went Hong-kong. In early June, he leaked all document through Journalist Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras both whom he had summoned to Hong-Kong for this purpose

On June 9, Four days after the press first exposed a secret NSA Programme based on his leaks. Snowden made his identity in Public.

On 14 June the U.S. Department of Justice charged him two courts of violating Espousing Act. and the theft of government property. Snowden could not enter to Russia because he did not have a Russian visa and he also could not travel to save opportunities in America because the United States had cancelled his passport.

Snowden stayed in the airport transit zone for 39 days, during which time he applied for asylum in 21 countries. On August 1, 2013, Russian authorities granted him a one-year temporary asylum. A year later, Russia issued Snowden a three-year residence permit allowing him to travel freely within the country and to go abroad for not longer than three months. He lives in an undisclosed location in Russia and is seeking asylum in the European Union.

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