The National Security Agency (NSA) are reported to have monitored the calls of 35 world leaders, and over the course of one month last year, they monitored more than 60 million phone calls made in Spain, alone, according to a Spanish Newspaper, El Mundo.
Snowden and the man who broke his story state that The Independent must have been fed the info on a Middle East spy base by none other than their own U.K. government.
Lavabit, the email service Edward Snowden used for sensitive information has been forced to shut down. Additionally, the German government appears to have been using tactics similar to the NSA for the past six years.
The ongoing saga involving Edward Snowden and his uncovering of the NSA's spying program on Americans took yet another interesting turn Thursday. Snowden was formally granted asylum in Russia and has since left his secret location in Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport.
On the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2008, Labeouf spoke about many of the issues that people are now outraged over regarding the NSA's spying efforts.
The National Security Administration has what is perhaps the biggest information-gathering program of all time, and the information they collect could be yours.