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Edward Snowden

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Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence contractor and whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. Born in 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, he attended a community college and later enrolled at a masters programme of the University of Liverpool without finishing it. In 2005 he worked for the University of Maryland, in 2006 he started working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and then switched to Dell in 2009 where he was managing computer systems of the NSA. In 2013, he worked two months at Booz Allen Hamilton with the purpose of gathering more NSA documents. In May 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong and in early June he revealed thousands of classified NSA documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, and Ewen MacAskill. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Snowden is the 252nd most popular social activist (down from 186th in 2019), the 3,056th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,728th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Social Activist.

Edward Snowden is most famous for leaking classified information about the NSA's mass surveillance programs to the press.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Edward Snowden ranks 252 out of 840. Before him are Narges Mohammadi, Jean Ziegler, Abba Kovner, Kate Sheppard, Peter Nguyen Van Hung, and Leymah Gbowee. After him are Djamila Bouhired, Haim Arlosoroff, Zinaida Portnova, Attica, Emmett Till, and Coretta Scott King.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Edward Snowden ranks 22. Before him are Philipp Lahm, Emily Blunt, Donald Glover, Henry Cavill, Rafael van der Vaart, and Yaya Touré. After him are Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Andrew Garfield, Ryoji Yamanaka, Álvaro Arbeloa, and Daniele De Rossi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Snowden ranks 3,056 out of 20,380. Before him are Jaclyn Smith (1945), John Carmack (1970), Ariana Grande (1993), Edmond Hamilton (1904), John Brown Gordon (1832), and Bill Finger (1914). After him are Bruce McCandless II (1937), Amy Beach (1867), Rami Malek (1981), Chris Pine (1980), Alvin Plantinga (1932), and Hannibal Hamlin (1809).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Edward Snowden ranks 31. Before him are Frederick Douglass (1818), Billy Milligan (1955), Sojourner Truth (1797), Fred Phelps (1929), Martin Luther King Sr. (1899), and Gloria Steinem (1934). After him are Emmett Till (1941), Coretta Scott King (1927), Edna Parker (1893), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Amelia Bloomer (1818), and Louise Bryant (1885).

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