Thanks to Edward Snowden, governments aren't looked upon very favourably by the security and privacy conscious. But they're not all bad. John Shier takes a look.
Newly revealed documents from the Edward Snowden trove show that XKeyscore is much more than a Google-like search engine for the world's private communications data.
Networking supergiant Cisco has become the latest big firm to release a transparency report, detailing its approach to dealing with requests for information from governments and police forces.