Snowden

plural Snowdens

1. countableuncountableA surname, variant of Snowdon.

   Evidence that the NSA was secretly building a vast database of U.S. telephone records - the who, the how, the when, and the where of millions of mobile calls - was the first and arguably the most explosive of the Snowden revelations published by the Guardian newspaper in 2013.

   2020 September 2, Raphael Satter, “U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal”, in Tom Brown, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2020, Media & Telecoms

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   [D]isclosures about America's own focus on cyberweaponry – including American-led attacks on Iran's nuclear infrastructure and National Security Agency documents revealed in the trove taken by Edward J. Snowden, the former agency contractor – detail the degree to which the United States has engaged in what the intelligence world calls "cyberexploitation" of targets in China.

   2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times

2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States.