Edward Snowden

Carl Bernstein says MPs should be looking at the conduct of the government over Snowden. But Tory MP Julian Smith says the Guardian has broken the law by releasing information about “our agents”.

“Pattern-of-life” analysis has emerged as a new buzz term in revelations about the National Security Agency. But what is it? And how does it connect shopping with spying?

The inventor of the world wide web talks surveillance, accountability and the future of the internet with Krishnan Guru-Murthy, saying government agencies need to “renegotiate trust” with the public.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, warns that a “growing tide of surveillance and censorship” by UK and US governments poses a risk to democracy and online freedom.

In the modern world of email and social networking, your connections mean that you could be more closely linked to terror suspects than you thought – which means you might be a target for US spies.

Exclusive: Tony Blair’s government allowed America to store and analyse the email, mobile phone and internet records of potentially millions of innocent Britons, Channel 4 News can reveal.

The inventor of the world wide web criticises spy agencies for breaching privacy and calls for a “full and frank public debate” about the scale and scope of state surveillance.

New claims the NSA secretly “copied data flows” between Yahoo and Google are denied by the US intelligence agency.

US intelligence services allegedly monitored Pope Benedict and other Vatican officials’ phone calls, according to the Italian magazine Panorama.

Barack Obama says he wants to “review” the NSA’s spying operations, after the chair of the Senate intelligence committee said she was “totally opposed” to US spying on foreign allies.

Reports suggest the NSA may have been bugging German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone for more than ten years, as her government pushes for “complete information” from the US.