Former NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden revealed the massive US global surveillance program.
Visiting US President Barack Obama defended the country's internet surveillance programs on Wednesday, saying that lives have been saved and threats averted thanks to the monitored information.
Iceland has received an informal approach from an intermediary who says Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed the US government's secret surveillance programmes, wants to seek asylum there. Snowden spying claims rejected
Snowden fought back against his critics,saying the government's "litany of lies" about the programs compelled him to act.
Ecuador would consider granting asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA employee who single-handedly disclosed the US National Security Agency's PRISM mass-surveillance program.
Information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the US and more than 20 other countries.
Several Internet companies have struck an agreement with the US government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive. Facebook: 9,000-10,000; Microsoft: 6,000 
'Yes we can' to 'Yes we scan'
In his first interview since disappearing from his hotel in Hong Kong, whistleblower Edward Snowden has said that he is neither a traitor nor a hero.
Britain said eavesdropping by its GCHQ security agency was legal and no threat to privacy but would not confirm or deny reports it received data from a clandestine US intelligence program.
India Tuesday voiced concern over the reported US spying on internet data of Indian citizens.
An ex-CIA employee revealed on Sunday it was he who leaked details of a top secret US surveillance program.
A US intelligence agency formally requested a criminal probe on Saturday into the leak of highly classified information about secret surveillance programs.
The classified phone and internet surveillance programs, which sparked controversy in the recent week, have prevented dozens of terrorist plots.
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