The USA can ban you

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UN surveillance resolution goes ahead despite attempts to dilute language

Failed attempt by US, UK and Australia shows increased isolation of 'Five-Eyes' nations amid international controversy.

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NSA surveillance: Europe threatens to freeze US data-sharing arrangements

NSA surveillance: Europe threatens to freeze US data-sharing arrangements.

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Justice Department urged to make public secret surveillance documents

Appeals court judges hear arguments in case brought by activist group EFF designed to shed light on what critics call 'secret law'.

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UK terror law watchdog calls for end to detention at borders without suspicion

Advice issued after series of incidents – including detention of David Miranda – put spotlight on schedule 7.

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Why the NSA has landed us all in another nice mess

The Snowden revelations may not end internet surveillance, but they will certainly cause radical changes.

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Edward Snowden revelations prompt UN investigation into surveillance

UN's senior counter-terrorism official says revelations 'are at the very apex of public interest concerns'.

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It's outrageous to accuse the Guardian of aiding terrorism by publishing Snowden's revelations

Alan Rusbridger is being grilled by MPs – but he has published nothing that could be a threat to national security.

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NSA gathering 5bn cell phone records daily, Snowden documents show

- Washington Post reveals details of location-tracking program.

- NSA monitors data of individuals wherever they are in the world.

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Amnesty to take legal action against UK security services

Human rights group says it is 'highly likely' its emails and phone calls have been intercepted by British intelligence.

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Spy agencies in covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online gaming

NSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life.

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Edward Snowden voted Guardian person of the year 2013

NSA whistleblower's victory, for exposing the scale of internet surveillance, follows that of Chelsea Manning last year.

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Twitter, Facebook and more demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws

AOL, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple and LinkedIn to call for reforms to restore the public's trust in the internet.

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Eight tech giants have sided with citizens over spies, but it's not enough

In an extremely significant move, tech giants have written an open letter to the White House seeking surveillance reform. This should be the welcome beginning of a bigger debate.

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NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules

- Dragnet 'likely' in breach of fourth amendment.

- Judge describes scope of program as 'Orwellian'.

- Ruling relates to collection of Americans' metadata.

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Edward Snowden says judge's ruling vindicates NSA surveillance disclosures

- NSA whistleblower welcomes Judge Richard Leon's ruling.

- 'Programs would not withstand constitutional challenge'.

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President Obama's NSA review group is typical administration whitewash

Notice how the White House moved quickly to thwart the only substantive NSA changes the review group was making.

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Merkel compared NSA to Stasi in heated encounter with Obama

German chancellor furious after revelations US intelligence agency listened in on her personal mobile phone.

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I challenged the NSA in court because it's a totalitarian attack on human rights

I'm pleased Judge Leon sided with the American people Monday by ruling that the NSA's actions likely violate the constitution.

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Tech firms push back against White House efforts to divert NSA meeting

- Administration said meeting would focus on healthcare website.

- 'We are here to talk about the NSA,' says one tech executive.

- Yahoo and others have already demanded sweeping reforms.

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Obama review panel: strip NSA of power to collect phone data records

- Review proposes greater authority for spying on foreign leaders.

- Government 'should be banned from undermining encryption'.

- Forty-six recommendations in 300-page report released early.