Edward Snowden’s name will always be associated with one defining act—blowing the whistle on the United States government’s mass surveillance program. At the time of this writing, he is still living in exile after releasing classified documents to the press in 2013 proving that these intrusive government programs existed. Some see him as a criminal (for instance the United States government), others as a suffering saint for the cause of personal privacy. Snowden obviously believed in what he was doing, but in his memoir he described a casual shopping experience that caused him to wonder if the risks he was taking were worth it.
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