The USA can ban you

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Barack Obama: NSA is not rifling through ordinary people's emails

US president is confident intelligence services have 'struck appropriate balance', he tells journalists in Berlin.

Yes, we believe you, Mr. President. You just forgot to say "read my lips".

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FBI admits to using surveillance drones over US soil

Robert Mueller tells Congress bureau uses drones in a 'very, very minimal way' as senators describe 'burgeoning concern'.

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GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications

Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal.

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Snowden spy row grows as US is accused of hacking China

Whistleblower charged with espionage reportedly claims US authorities accessed millions of private text messages in China.

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GCHQ monitoring described as a 'catastrophe' by German politicians

Federal ministers demand clarification from UK government on extent of spying conducted on German citizens.

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Whistleblower Snowden escapes arrest in Hong Kong thanks to US errors

Edward Snowden heads for Ecuador after flight to Russia leaves authorities in various countries amazed and infuriated.

Edward Snowden: diplomatic storm swirls as whistleblower seeks asylum in Ecuador

Whistleblower escapes from Hong Kong to Moscow on a commercial flight despite a formal US extradition request.

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China's state newspaper praises Edward Snowden for 'tearing off Washington's sanctimonious mask'

State-run People's Daily says whistleblower has exposed US hypocrisy after Washington blamed Beijing for his escape.

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Civil rights group says GCHQ and NSA have targeted it illegally

Liberty asks official tribunal to investigate whether its communications have been intercepted by government spooks.

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Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ's secret cable trawl

Minister questions legality of mass tapping of calls and internet and demands to know extent to which Germans were targeted.

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Putin: NSA whistleblower Snowden is in Moscow airport

Russian president brings end to mystery over whistleblower's whereabouts after days of confusion.

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Who authorised the NSA and GCHQ to spy on Germans?

The US and Britain claim they have operated within the law. But they are not our laws and we shouldn't be subject to them.

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US got NSA leaker Edward Snowden's middle name wrong, says Hong Kong

Justice secretary explains why White House's request for arrest of whistleblower was turned down.

The commenters to the article are literally laughing their heads off.

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NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama

• Secret program launched by Bush continued 'until 2011'.

• Fisa court renewed collection order every 90 days.

• Current NSA programs still mine US internet metadata.

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How the NSA is still harvesting your online data

Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating 'one trillion records processed'.

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If Big Brother came back, he'd be a public-private partnership

GCHQ and NSA mine data collected by private companies such as Google and Facebook. They have a duty of openness too.

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US army blocks access to Guardian website to preserve 'network hygiene'

Military admits to filtering reports and content relating to government surveillance programs for thousands of personnel.

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Senators accuse government of using 'secret law' to collect Americans' data

Bipartisan group seeks answers from intelligence chief James Clapper over scale of and justification for NSA surveillance.

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Washington Post releases four new slides from NSA's Prism presentation

Newly published top-secret documents detail how NSA interfaces with tech giants such as Google, Apple and Microsoft.

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Key US-EU trade pact under threat after more NSA spying allegations

Reports in Der Spiegel that US agencies bugged European council building 'reminiscent of cold war', says German minister.

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New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies

Exclusive: Edward Snowden papers reveal 38 targets including EU, France and Italy.

Berlin accuses Washington of cold war tactics over snooping

Reports of NSA snooping on Europe go well beyond previous revelations of electronic spying.