Permanent Record: Why Snowden Risked His Life to Expose the Surveillance State

Name: Permanent Record: Why Snowden Risked His Life to Expose the Surveillance State
Uploaded: 2024
Duration: 30 min

202430 minHD★ 8Conspiracy & Cover-Ups

Dr.Docs' Take

Permanent Record is Snowden explaining, in his own framing, why he burned his life down to reveal that the US had quietly built a machine to watch everyone. I keep circling this story because the core fact is not in dispute, the surveillance apparatus was real and secret. You can debate the man and still be stunned by what he exposed. The scariest part is how normal it all looked from the inside, right up until someone said no.

This documentary examines Edward Snowden and the vast surveillance state he risked his life to expose. It revisits how his leaked documents revealed a sprawling apparatus built to monitor Americans and people across the globe, and the price he paid in exile and prosecution. The film weighs security against privacy and asks how much watching a free society should tolerate. Provocative and clear, it is a sharp look at power in the digital age. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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