Welcome to the post-Snowden era, where everything you say or do can be monitored by secret services – regardless of a court of law. One year on,here are the top 10 revelations showing us how the world has been fundamentally transformed by state snooping.<\/p>\n
The National Security Agency (NSA) has direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants. Using its\u00a0PRISM<\/a>\u00a0surveillance program, the agency can collect your search history, the content of your emails, file transfers and live chats.<\/p>\n According to a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0in Der Spiegel, an NSA division called ANT has technology, including a radio-frequency device, which can monitor and even manipulate data on computers that are not even connected to the internet.<\/p>\n Who\u2019s calling whom, at what time, and for how long: Verizon and other US phone companies have been\u00a0required<\/a>\u00a0to turn over so-called telephony metadata for millions of unwitting Americans to the NSA.<\/p>\n Resistance is\u00a0futile<\/a>.<\/p>\n The NSA records almost all domestic and international phone calls in Afghanistan and the Bahamas using a program called\u00a0SOMALGET<\/a>. In the Bahamas, the NSA boasted of being able to log\u00a0\u201cover 100 million call events per day.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The full telephone conversations are stored for up to 30 days.<\/p>\n2. What you do offline is monitored!<\/h2>\n
3. They are collecting your phone records, too<\/h2>\n
4. And if you live in some countries, it is not just metadata<\/h2>\n