In America, a scandal is flared up directly related to the National Security Agency. US citizens learned that they can become victims of their own special services.
More than five thousand people went to a demonstration in Washington. Protesting against unprecedented measures to monitor US citizens by national security agency. The main requirement of the action was the adoption of the law limiting the powers of special services. This action flared up against the background of a scandal associated with the activities of special services. There is evidence that the NSA for many years could listen to telephone conversations Angels Merkel, who serves the post of chancellor of Germany. In France, more than 70 million telephone negotiations could be victims of special services. The protest was dedicated to the 12th anniversary of the adoption of a patriotic act. It is about resolving special services to trace email and listen to phone calls. Protesters thanked Edward Snowden, a former NSA employee who declassified information about mass surveillance. Parliamentarians transferred the petition to Congress. The authors turn to lawmakers in the document to declassify the true scale of surveillance. In June, Edward Snowden posted on the Internet a secret directive, thanks to which special services receive permission to listen to Verizon cellular operator. Also public received a document on the Anb program called Prism, allowing to control electronic data on the Internet. According to officials – surveillance does not contradict US laws. President Obama made a promise to reconsider these programs. As it became known, in early October, the US court extended the resolution of the NSA to conduct listening to telephone conversations and tracking email.