The USA can ban you

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NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies

- Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship.

- Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA.

- Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling.

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Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself

The NSA whistleblower says: 'I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent'.

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'Sending a message': what the US and UK are attempting to do

State-loyal journalists seem to believe in a duty to politely submit to bullying tactics from political officials.

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Press freedom: an open letter to David Cameron from Nordic editors

While domestic security must be upheld, it is equally important to protect open public debate.

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David Miranda's detention is a threat to press freedom, say European editors

Newspapers urge prime minister to restore Britain's reputation for free press after holding of Guardian journalist's partner.

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NSA leaks: David Cameron's response is intimidation, says world press body

World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers tells the UK government its actions could threaten press freedom.

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Facebook report: governments asked for data on 38,000 users this year

First report of its kind reveals more than half of government requests for user data in first half of 2013 came from the US.

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Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests

Technology firms want to be allowed to publish information about US government requests under the Fisa legislation.

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US should re-evaluate surveillance laws, ex-NSA chief acknowledges

Bobby Ray Inman defends the NSA's bulk surveillance but says the nature of communications has changed – and that the US must revisit laws in the private sector as well.

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NSA 'spied on communications' of Brazil and Mexico presidents

Brazil's Globo news program reports revelations based on documents obtained by Glenn Greenwald from Edward Snowden.

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US drug agency partners with AT&T for access to 'vast database' of call records

Hemisphere project, revealed by NYT, has AT&T employees sit alongside drug units to aid access to data in exchange for payment.

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Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: our new heroes

As the NSA revelations have shown, whistleblowing is now an essential art. It is our means of keeping 'public reason' alive.

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US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet

- NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records.

- $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products.

- Security experts say programs 'undermine the fabric of the internet'.

Sigint – how the NSA collaborates with technology companies

Document shows how 'signals intelligence', or Sigint, 'actively engages US and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products' designs'.

NSA: classification guide for cryptanalysis

Guide reveals that NSA 'obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic information security systems through industry relationships'.

Project Bullrun – classification guide to the NSA's decryption program

Guide for NSA employees and contractors on Bullrun outlines its goals – and reveals that the agency has capabilities against widely-used online protocols such as HTTPS.

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How internet encryption works

You may not realise you use encryption, but you probably do – and if someone breaks it, your details are theirs to own.

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How to remain secure against NSA surveillance

The NSA has huge capabilities – and if it wants in to your computer, it's in. With that in mind, here are five ways to stay safe.

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The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back

The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it.

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Microsoft and Yahoo voice alarm over NSA's assault on internet encryption

Tech companies say they were unaware of top secret programs but warn they present 'substantial potential for abuse'.

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Welcome to the end of secrecy

The real lesson of the Snowden leaks is not the threat to privacy. It is the NSA's losing battle against the new agents of openness.

Explaining the latest NSA revelations – Q&A with internet privacy experts

The Guardian's James Ball and cryptology expert Bruce Schneier answer questions about revelations that spy agencies in the US and UK have cracked internet privacy tools.

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NSA encryption story, Latin American fallout and US/UK attacks on press freedoms

The implications of the prior week's reporting of NSA stories continue to grow.

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Yahoo files lawsuit against NSA over user data requests

Yahoo says 'withholding information breeds mistrust' and asks to be allowed to publish its number of received data requests.