Friday, July 5, 2013

U.S. Explodes With 100 Anti-NSA Protest




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U.S. Explodes With 100 Anti-NSA Protest



Americans take to streets, Internet to demand feds stop spying on citizens Published: 36 mins ago (Massachusetts protest photo: Dustin M. Slaughter) Americans outraged by the federal government’s spying programs took to the streets on Independence Day for “Restore the Fourth” protests in an estimated 100 American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Memphis and Miami, plus international cities such as London and Munich. The “Restore the Fourth” national protest was named after the Fourth Amendment, which was intended to protect Americans against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Iowa "Restore the Fourth" protest (Photo: The Daily Iowan) The NSA’s PRISM online surveillance program was exposed by Edward Snowden only weeks ago. Americans soon learned that at least nine Internet companies reportedly submitted to government surveillance of their servers: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL and Apple.






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