US spies on the internet

Secret court orders forced US telephone companies to hand over customers’ phone records to the National Security Agency. The PRISM programme required US-based tech companies to hand over user information stored on their servers – email, social media, and other data – to the US government. US companies routinely provided the US government back doors to their “encrypted systems”. The US and British governments worked together to intercept internet traffic flowing through fibre optic cables all over the world.