1. Who was working on a project to acquire user information from Angry Birds and the GoogleMaps app, among others?

2. a) What type of information are the agencies able to acquire?
b) How are they able to do so?

3. What information were the agencies extracting through Golden Nugget?

4. How did the Obama administration respond to this latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has been leaking top-secret documents he took from the NSA?

5. What agreement did top Internet companies reach with the feds on Monday?

6. What is your reaction to each of the following (do you agree or disagree with each? why or why not?)

a) ) Regarding people who don't care about government surveillance, who say they have boring lives, or they have nothing to hide:

Bruce Sheiner wrote on wired .com
"Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that’s why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide."

b) In a December 2013 letter to the people of Brazil, Snowden wrote:
"There is a huge difference between legal programs, legitimate spying ... and these programs of dragnet mass surveillance that put entire populations under an all-seeing eye and save copies forever ... These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power."