Tapping

Big Brother's listening: Centre taps over 1 lakh phones a year; many more by states

The study, 'India's surveillance state', prepared on the basis of RTI replies given by the government, also found that 26 companies including foreign firms expressed interest in setting up Internet monitoring systems for the government.

UK public has shrugged off NSA leaks, says David Cameron

Snowden says he can't return to US, urges whistleblower protection

Lawmakers say Obama surveillance idea won't work

Russia behind Snowden's leak? US lawmaker investigates

Obama bans spying on leaders of allies, scales back NSA phone surveillance in US

British spy agency taps phones, internet to share data with US

Britain's spy agency GCHQ has tapped fibre-optic cables that carry international phone and internet traffic and is sharing vast quantities of personal information.