Edward Snowden
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| Birthname | Edward Snowden |
| Date of Birth | June 21, 1983 |
| Birth Place | Elisabeth City, North Carolina |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Computer Professional |
| Biography | Best known for his leak of confidential NSA documents that revealed the unlawful practices of their security programs |
Contents
Life Before the Government Employment
Edward Snowden was born on June 21, 1983.( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/edward-snowden-army-special-forces) Edward Snowden was born in Elisabeth City, North Carolina, but grew up in the suburbs of Maryland.(wired) Coincidentally, he did not grow up far from the NSA’s headquarters at Fort Meade. Snowden did not graduate from college or high school, but was enrolled in the Anne Arundel County public school system until he was forced to miss eight months of school due to a battle with mononucleosis. Snowden then enrolled in community college, and began to explore his passion in technology. At this point in time Snowden began to work for one of his friends that ran his own tech company.
Family Ties to Government Service
Snowden came from a family that was heavily involved in government affairs. In one of his extensive interviews with the magazine WIRED, Snowden says “Everybody in my family has worked for the government in one way or another.” (3Wired) Snowden’s family ties to Government Agencies go all the way back to his maternal Grandfather, who worked in the Pentagon(Wikipedia), continue through his parents and to his sister, Jessica, who was a lawyer for The Federal Judicial Center in Washington. Snowden found himself attracted to the idea of being able to serve his country. Inspired by the events that took place on 9/11, and the ensuing Iraq War on Terrorism, Snowden volunteered his services to the Army special forces in 2004. He passed aptitude tests, but was discharged after suffering two broken legs during a training exercise.(wired) After accepting and excelling at a job with the CIA, Snowden was then transferred to a job with the NSA. He worked for the NSA until he left the country, prior to leaking the Government documents that he had collected.
The Leak
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Ethical Implications
Group of peasant farmers. conquered people in the Peloponnese who had to endure enslavement as helots, a term derived from the Greek for “being captured.” Later ancient commentators described the helots as “between slave and free” (Pollux, Onomasticon 3.83) because they were not the personal property of individual Spartans but rather slaves belonging to the whole community, which alone could free them. Helots had a semblance of family life because they were expected to produce children to maintain the size of their population, which was compelled to labor as farmers and household slaves as a way of freeing Spartan citizens from any need to do such work. Spartan men in fact wore their hair very long to show they were warriors of high status rather than laborers, for whom long hair was an inconvenience.
