Just a few notables from
http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-leaks-timeline-2016-9
• The NSA shares raw intelligence data (with information about American citizens) to Israel with an information-sharing agreement. — September 11, 2013
Since 2010, the NSA has used metadata augmented with other data from public, commercial, and other sources to create sophisticated graphs that map Americans' social connections. — September 28, 2013
The NSA and GCHQ worked together to compromise the anonymous web-browsing Tor network. — October 4, 2013
• The NSA tapped the mobile phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. — October 23, 2013
• The NSA spied on the Vatican. (The Panorama website did not cite Snowden as the source.) — October 30, 2013
• The NSA gathers evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a plan to discredit Muslim jihadists. — November 26, 2013
• With a $79.7 million research program, the NSA is working on a quantum computer that would be able to crack most types of encryption. — January 2, 2014
• Using radio transmitters on tiny circuit boards or USB drives, the NSA can gain access to computers not connected to the internet. — January 14, 2014
• Britain's GCHQ waged war on hacker groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec, mounting Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks and infiltrating their chat rooms. — February 5, 2014