Ten ways you can avoid being caught in the PRISM net

Last weekend, the Washington Post published a further four slides, leaked from the US National Security Agency (NSA), which outline how data is collected through the PRISM program. The process is fairly simple: after an NSA analyst identifies a new surveillance target and a supervisor endorses the analyst’s “reasonable belief” (defined as 51% confidence) that the target is a foreign national and overseas at the time, data collection can begin. Just say you’re one of these new targets, or you simply don’t want to be incidentally monitored. How can you minimise the amount of data you share?