No Place to Hide

By Glenn Greenwald,

Book cover of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

Book description

A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive…

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This may be the first book about surveillance that I ever read, and it left a lasting impression on me. I was shocked by the details in Greenwald’s analysis of the NSA documents provided to him by Edward Snowden. I was convinced that something had to be done about mass surveillance. 

It was really the later chapters of the book that hooked me. I appreciated Greenwald’s description of the scale of NSA surveillance and the social harms that result from mass surveillance practices. I was also awakened to some of the problems in mainstream journalism when Greenwald recounted his experiences…

An unflinching look at the biggest surveillance whistleblower of the Internet Age. Greenwald tells the story of 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden and his leaking of classified documents about widespread illegal surveillance operations conducted by the United States government. The revelations detailed in this book sparked fierce debates about the future of American privacy and surveillance that are still shaping our modern political discourse.  

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