Edward Snowden Autobiography: Permanent Record is the story of American whistleblower Edward Snowden. The man who risked everything to expose the U.S. government's mass surveillance system reveals the story of his life in this new mind-blowing autobiography for the first time. Back in 2013, the twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden stunned the world when he hacked the American intelligence organization and disseminated classified data from the NSA and CIA leaks. This autobiography tells Snowden's story from his early years back when he worked for the NSA to his current exile somewhere in Russia. Some of the most intriguing stories are how he helped build that unbelievable system that monitors from every technology perspective and what encouraged Snowden to attempt to get it down.