Snowden
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Snowdon.
Proper noun
[edit]Snowden (countable and uncountable, plural Snowdens)
- A surname, variant of Snowdon.
- 2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times[1]:
- [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.
- 2020 September 2, Raphael Satter, “U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal”, in Tom Brown, editor, Reuters[2], archived from the original on 01 November 2020, Media & Telecoms:
- 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.
- An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Snowden is the 3233rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 11171 individuals. Snowden is most common among White (59.77%) and Black/African American (34.38%) individuals.