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"Reddit and Mozilla are among dozens of tech companies taking part in a protest against the National Security Agency&amp;#039;s (NSA) surveillance practises this July 4. Organised by the non-profit group Fight for the Future, the protests see thousands of websites prominently displaying a Fourth Amendment banner.  &amp;quot;The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,&amp;quot; reads the text quoted from the US Constitution. Site visitors will also be asked to sign an e-petition against the NSA&amp;#039;s surveillance programme, email Congress, or take part in one of several street demonstrations being organised by Restore the Fourth. The protest is reminiscent of the 2012 anti-SOPA protests many tech companies were involved in, except market leaders such as Google and Facebook have not taken part.  The scandal over the NSA&amp;#039;s activities came to light when former CIA worker Edward Snowden exposed the PRISM programme, which the Obama administration has been using to gather public phone records and internet data. Snowden is now a fugitive applying for asylum in various countries while holed up in a Russian airport.  Watch Fight for the Future&amp;#039;s protest video below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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