Mario. Solid Snake. Cloud Strife. EDWARD SNOWDEN.

Last year, we stared the downside to living in the future straight in the face.

Every Awful Edward Snowden Game, Reviewed. There are a lot of cheaply made games about Edward Snowden. Most of them I don't want to touch with a 10-foot pole. Lucky for us, our friends at Animal New York sat down and played them, so we don't have to.

Yesterday was an unusually troubling day for online privacy. Microsoft clarified the potentially problematic privacy settings for the Kinect video and audio sensor that must be plugged into the Xbox One for it to operate. And yet according to a stunning, unrelated report, Microsoft has also been offering up its users'…

Last night, the Washington Post and Guardian dropped concurrent bombshell reports. Their subject was PRISM, a covert collaboration between the NSA, FBI, and nearly every tech company you rely on daily. PRISM has allowed the government unprecedented access to your personal information for at least the last six years.…

Wow. Nothing is sacred. The Washington Post has discovered that the NSA and FBI have teamed up to tap into the servers of nine US tech companies—Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, you name it—and have extracted e-mails, photographs, audio, video, documents and connection logs. They basically have free reign to take…