Snapshots of the Fortnight (Jun 13-27)

Ukrainian Internet Party activists hold a ‘tap the phone and internet lines’ protest outside the US Embassy in Kiev to attract public attention to the violation of rights following the United States Internet surveillance programme exposed by former spy Edward Snowden (on photo at R). Under the so-called PRISM programme, the US National Security Agency can issue directives to internet firms like Google or Facebook to gain access to emails, online chats, pictures, files and videos that have been uploaded by foreign users