Corporations lust for the commercial possibilities of targeted advertising and influence-peddling. government is a willing agent of “surveillance capitalism, and the end of the Internet as I knew it.” The creative web fell, replaced by behemoths like Facebook and Google, which keep track of users’ comings and goings, eventually knowing more than we do about ourselves and using that data as a commodity to buy and sell. A second theme, equally ubiquitous, is that the U.S. “I used to work for the government,” he writes, “but now I work for the public.” He adds that making that distinction “got me into a bit of trouble at the office.” That’s an understatement. intelligence community was an act of civic service. Snowden opens with an argument he carries throughout the narrative: that revealing secrets of the U.S. The infamous National Security Agency contractor–turned–leaker and Russian exile presents his side of the story.
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