From "Free Speech Radio News": "The US government regularly breaks through the encryption software that protects the e-mails, chats, cell phone calls, bank statements, medical records and web searches of Internet users in the US and around the world – and spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to do so. That’s according to classified government documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden and published this week by the New York Times, ProPublica and the Guardian. Tech experts and civil liberties advocates say the agencies are prioritizing their own surveillance powers over the security of US networks. In Washington, DC, FSRN’s Alice Ollstein has more."