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  (Source: Trulia) Heavy majority votes to suspend two key mass
surveillance programs  Spying between nations -- even allies --
may be foul play, but is nothing terribly new. But what is new
is the U.S. funneling money to large intelligence contractors,
which work with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
to collect and curate billions of records a day.  I. Europe
Smacks Down U.S. Spying Programs  Leaks from former NSA and Booz
Allen Hamilton Holding Comp. (BAH) systems administrator Edward
Snowden have revealed that the NSA and its private partner spend
taxpayer money to seize 99 percent of phone records in the
U.S. And it appears that the NSA's mass surveillance programs
overseas in ally states are almost as sweeping; for example in
Germany (which has a bit over 80 million citizens [source]) 20
million phone records are seized on a daily basis.  On the 4th
of July, the European Parliament voted 483-98 to suspend two key
data sharing programs --