Classified documents obtained by the Washington Post and The Guardian reveal that the National Security Agency, a US intelligence-gathering body, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are secretly tapping into the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple.
The program - called Prism - is the latest in a series of secret data gathering schemes put in place after 9/11.
Europeans have had their banking data, air passenger data - and now t...
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