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Has it ever occurred to you that every electronic device - computer, smartphone, security camera, even a modern fridge with Wi-Fi - is a very convenient way to keep an eye on you every day, every hour? While working in Hawaii at a CIA base, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden first thought about what he was doing to help build what he called "a giant global surveillance machine." "Deep under a pineapple field... I was sitting at a computer with unlimited access to communications systems used by almost every man, woman and child in the world who has ever made a call or switched on a computer... [and such access] is a flagrant violation not only of the U.S. Constitution, but of the basic values of any free country."

Total surveillance of all people in the world — is not an idea from a science fiction film. It happens every day to all of us. Intelligence has access to all your devices, it can look into your phone and see not only the photos you have shared, but also intimate ones. And the metadata on your device, according to Snowden, "can give someone who is watching you the address of where you spent the night and what time you got up in the morning. Metadata shows all the places you've been during the day and tells you how long you've been there. Metadata tells you who you've been in contact with and who has been in contact with you."

Snowden — is the first who dared to reveal this secret of American intelligence to the world. "You are reading this book because," he writes, "I did one dangerous thing for a man in my position - I decided to tell the truth. Having gathered internal CIA documents that proved that America was breaking the law, I passed them on to journalists, who, having carefully checked them, showed them to an outraged world."

Edward Snowden was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and grew up in the shadow of Fort Meade. Trained as a systems engineer, he served in the CIA and worked as a contractor for the NSA. For his service to civil society, he has received numerous awards, including the Good Life Award, the German Whistleblower Award, the Riedenauer Prize for Truth and the Carl von Ossetsky Medal from the International League for the Defence of Human Rights. He currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.