Permanent Record

A firsthand account of mass surveillance, conscience, and the personal cost of exposing state secrecy.

Permanent Record is Edward Snowden’s deeply personal account of how a technically curious young man became one of the most consequential whistleblowers of the digital era. More than a political exposé, the book is a memoir about power, trust, and what happens when technological capability outpaces democratic oversight.

Snowden does not begin with revelat…