13 ways the NSA spies on us

Here's a handy guide to the most significant ways the National Security Agency spies on people in the United States and around the world:

1. The NSA collects every American's phone records
2. The PRISM program lets the NSA access private user data on leading online services
3. The NSA engages in offensive hacking operations
4. The NSA taps long-distance Internet connections
5. The NSA intercepted data flowing within Google and Yahoo data centers
6. The NSA spies on foreign leaders
7. The NSA spies on millions of ordinary people overseas
8. The NSA tracks cell phone locations around the world
9. From 2001 to 2011, the NSA collected vast amounts of information about Americans' Internet usage
10. The NSA has undermined the security of encryption products
11. The NSA uses tracking cookies to choose hacking targets
12. The NSA has cracked a popular standard for encrypting cell phone communications
13. The NSA can record every phone call in a certain, unspecified, country and store it for 30 days