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Edward Snowden Parents: Meet Lonnie and Wendy Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden is an American-born and naturalized Russian former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 when he was an employee and subcontractor.

His illegal disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many runs by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments, and prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy.

In early 2016, Snowden became the president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization that aims to protect journalists from hacking and government surveillance. He also has a job at an unnamed Russian IT company.

In 2017, he married Lindsay Mills. On September 17, 2019, his memoir Permanent Record was published. On September 2, 2020, a U.S. federal court ruled in United States v. Moalin that the U.S. intelligence’s mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal and possibly unconstitutional.

Edward Snowden Parents: Meet Lonnie and Wendy Snowden

Edward Snowden’s parents are Lonnie and Wendy Snowden. The other member of Edward Snowden’s family is his sister Jessica Snowden.

Edward Snowden was born on June 21, 1983, in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Edward Snowden’s parents come from a long line of heroes and patriots. His grandfather and father both worked for the Coast Guard and his mother was directly descended from the barrel maker on the Mayflower.

Edward Snowden’s parents have his baby photos in photo albums instead of on Facebook, and his home videos on VHS tapes instead of YouTube. Unlike online digital records, these analog formats won’t last forever.

As a child, Ed liked spying. In the home of Edward Snowden’s parents, there was a window between his room and the den and he would spy on his family members as they watched TV, did chores, or in the case of his father Lonnie, played with technology.

When Ed was nine, his family moved to Crofton, Maryland. Lonnie continued to work for the Coast Guard. Wendy took a new job at the NSA, the National Security Agency, making retirement arrangements for spies.

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Lorie Orum

Update: 2024-05-18