Edward Snowden Biography
Edward Snowden is a computer professional from the United States and a former NSA subcontractor. When he was an employee and subcontractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), he leaked highly classified information.
Edward Snowden Age
He is 39 years old as of June 2022. Snowden was born Edward Joseph Snowden on June 21, 1983, in North Carolina, United States of America.
Edward Snowden Height
Edward stands at a height of 5’11” (180 cm) tall.
Edward Snowden Family – Parents
Snowden was born in North Carolina, USA, on June 21, 1983. His father, Lonnie Snowden, was a coast guard officer, and his mother, Elizabeth Snowden, was a chief deputy at the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. His grandfather worked for the ‘FBI’ for several years. Snowden’s parents divorced when he was a teenager.
Edward Snowden’s Wife – Married
Snowden met Lindsay Mills in America and began dating her. He ended their relationship just before leaking the highly classified information, citing her safety as his primary concern. Lindsay joined him in Russia when he moved there, and the couple has been together ever since.
Edward Snowden Career
Snowden was hired as an IT professional by the ‘Central Intelligence Agency’ (CIA) in 2006. He was stationed in Geneva, Switzerland, under diplomatic cover, to maintain computer network security. He discovered the surveillance system that infiltrated the general public’s privacy and began collecting documents. Snowden was fired after being suspected of obtaining top-secret documents. He then went on to work as a subcontractor for NSA in one of their Japanese offices from 2009 to 2013. He was assigned to an NSA facility at Yokota Air Base near Tokyo while working for ‘Dell.’ He was reassigned as the lead technologist to the Hawaii regional operations center in 2012.
He went on to work for another tech consulting firm called ‘Booz Allen Hamilton’ for three months. He then discovered the practices that he believed were immoral and unethical and needed to be stopped immediately. He then compiled all of the information he had gathered into a dossier. He set up a meeting with a journalist from ‘The Guardian,’ and then contacted documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras. The information was officially presented to the entire world in June 2013 by ‘The Guardian,’ which stated that Americans’ phones were being tapped without their knowledge and that some of them were being kept under surveillance.
He made a much-anticipated teleconference appearance at the Southwest festival in March 2014, and it was revealed that the US government had lost billions of dollars as a result of the leaks. Several other films and documentaries followed, and Snowden became a celebrity in the United States and around the world. He believes that what he did was necessary because the general public needed to know that the government was constantly watching them.
In November 2018, he made another revelation when he produced a court declaration in the ‘Jewel vs NSA’ case, in which the ‘Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) accused the NSA and other high-ranking officials of a ‘illegal and unconstitutional dragnet communications surveillance program’ during the George W. Bush administration.
Edward Snowden’s Net Worth
Snowden has an estimated net worth of $500,000 thousand dollars.