Snowden

Proper noun

Snowden (countable and uncountable, plural Snowdens)

1. A surname, variant of Snowdon.
   • [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...2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times
   • 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
2. An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States.