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No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald, published in 2014, examines the shocking documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013, revealing the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass data collection from millions of individuals, global communication interception, and violation of privacy laws. Greenwald highlights Snowden's motivations, the NSA's corporate partnerships, historical surveillance context, the oppressive nature of mass surveillance, media complicity in state power, and Snowden's inspiration from mythology and literature, ultimately presenting a complex picture of political overreach and the erosion of civil liberties. The book details instances of intrusive surveillance and threats to individual privacy.