The NSA has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world.
The NSA collected almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks in one month in 2013.
The NSA is collecting the content and metadata of emails, web activity, chats, social networks, and everything else as part of what it calls upstream collection.
The NSA is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans.
The NSA is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world.
The NSA is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans e-mail and text communications into and out of the country.