The US National Security Agency (NSA) has direct access to information on the servers of major American internet companies, according to reports published in the Guardian and the Washington Post.
The UK’s digital spying and eavesdropping agency GCHQ are due to report to MPs “within days” over claims that it was involved in gathering intelligence on British citizens from internet companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple along with the US National Security Agency as part of its PRISM operation.
A 41-slide NSA presentation has been leaked on a program called PRISM, which gives the spy agency “direct access” to the servers of the biggest Internet companies in the US, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo and Skype.
Protesters took over Apple’s Regent Street store yesterday and played Irish folk music to protest the technology company’s tax avoidance schemes.
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