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    Metadata is information generated as you use technology, and its use has been the subject of controversy since NSA’s secret surveillance program was revealed. Examples include the date and time you called somebody or the location from which you last accessed your email. Explore some of the data collected through activities you do every day. Today The Guardian’s data editor James Ball will answer your questions about the NSA data collection program in the US from 3pm-4pm EST | 8pm-9pm BST

    Metadata is information generated as you use technology, and its use has been the subject of controversy since NSA’s secret surveillance program was revealed. Examples include the date and time you called somebody or the location from which you last accessed your email. Explore some of the data collected through activities you do every day. Today The Guardian’s data editor James Ball will answer your questions about the NSA data collection program in the US from 3pm-4pm EST | 8pm-9pm BST

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    Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple. Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007 Read more on the Guardian exclusive: http://gu.com/p/3gd58/tw

    Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple. Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007

    Read more on the Guardian exclusive: http://gu.com/p/3gd58/tw

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    Meet the YouTube superstars The revolution will not be televised but it’s already online, thanks to a new generation of self-made YouTube stars whose video blogs, music and sketches are gaining them huge worldwide audiences – and making them rich Photo: Seven of the top YouTube creators, from left to right: Lex Croucher (tyrannosauruslexxx), Klaire De Lys (KlaireDeLys), Benjamin Cook (ninebrassmonkeys), Christopher Bingham (slomozo), Hazel Hayes (chewing sand), Shirley B Eniang (shirleybeniang), Thomas Ridgewell (tomSka) - find out more about them all here. Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer

    Meet the YouTube superstars

    The revolution will not be televised but it’s already online, thanks to a new generation of self-made YouTube stars whose video blogs, music and sketches are gaining them huge worldwide audiences – and making them rich

    Photo: Seven of the top YouTube creators, from left to right: Lex Croucher (tyrannosauruslexxx), Klaire De Lys (KlaireDeLys), Benjamin Cook (ninebrassmonkeys), Christopher Bingham (slomozo), Hazel Hayes (chewing sand), Shirley B Eniang (shirleybeniang), Thomas Ridgewell (tomSka) - find out more about them all here. Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer

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    There are two sides to every story. Guardian US has launched a new campaign that allows readers to voice their opinion on four key issues. 

    #VoiceYourView: Where do you stand on internet privacy? 

    More reading from The Guardian to help you make your decision: 

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    North Korean school boys play with an Associated Press photographer’s professional camera on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, while he snaps them on his smartphone using Instagram. In January foreign visitors were allowed to bring mobile phones into North Korea for the first time and this week the local service provider, Koryolink, is allowing foreigners to access the Internet on a data capable 3G connection on mobile phones. Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

    North Korean school boys play with an Associated Press photographer’s professional camera on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, while he snaps them on his smartphone using Instagram. In January foreign visitors were allowed to bring mobile phones into North Korea for the first time and this week the local service provider, Koryolink, is allowing foreigners to access the Internet on a data capable 3G connection on mobile phones.

    Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

  10. Who should be voted champion of the open web?

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    You suggested them now it’s time to place your votes. Here are just a few of the nominees:

    • Dunja Mijatovic – campaigner for free speech online as a representative of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
    • Marietje Schaake – Dutch MEP and leading campaigner for internet freedom, in particular in relation to ACTA in Europe
    • Pamela Jones – founder of the Groklaw website, which started as a legal blog covering news for the free and open source software community
    • Phil Zimmerman – creator of email encryption software Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), which he made publicly available
    • Rebecca Mackinnon – co-founder of GlobalVoicesOnline, internet freedom advocate and author of Consent of the Networked

    Head over to the Guardian to vote.

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