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|Short description=To protect their freedom and privacy, the FSF urges everyone to contact their representatives, avoid Software as a Service, and donate to support projects working for a better, safer world.
 
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|Full description=In response to the *[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data Guardian]*
 
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report  that major Internet companies including <a href="http://upgradefromwindows8.com">Microsoft</a>, <a href="http://fsf.org/facebook">Facebook</a>,
 
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<a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/apple">Apple</a>, Google, YouTube, <a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/microsoft-skype">Skype</a>, Yahoo, PalTalk,
 
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and AOL, have apparently been providing sensitive user data to the National Security Agency (NSA), FSF executive director John Sullivan
 
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made the following statement:
 
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Massive privacy intrusions like this are to be expected when people
 
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shift from storing their media locally and using local software, to
 
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storing them on other people's servers and using hosted (Web)
 
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applications. Giants like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are
 
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vulnerable to government requests for user data, and there are
 
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better, more secure ways to share information online. Free software
 
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projects like <a href="http://mediagoblin.org">GNU MediaGoblin</a>,
 
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<a href="http://status.net">StatusNet</a>, <a href="http://joindiaspora.com">Diaspora</a>,
 
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<a href="http://pump.io">pump.io</a>, <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org">Tahoe-LAFS</a>,
 
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<a href="http://freedomboxfoundation.org/">FreedomBox</a> and
 
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<a href="http://sparkleshare.org">SparkleShare</a> are hard at work creating a
 
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less centralized world where users retain control over both their
 
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media and the software used to access it, while still getting the
 
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social and convenience benefits of the giant centralized -- and
 
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compromised -- services.
 
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|Homepage URL=http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:PRISM
 
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|Related projects=MediaGoblin
 
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|Is GNU=No
 
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