But whistleblower says 2013 surveillance ‘child’s play’ compared to technology today

Edward Snowden has warned that surveillance technology is so much more advanced and intrusive today it makes that used by US and British intelligence agencies he revealed in 2013 look like child’s play.

In an interview on the 10th anniversary of his revelations about the scale of surveillance – some of it illegal – by the US National Security Agency and its British counterpart, GCHQ, he said he had no regrets about what he had done and cited positive changes.

Microsoft will face new restrictions on what it can do with this young player's info. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock)

Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle an FTC complaint that its Xbox platform illegally collected and retained information about children without their parents' consent, in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

According to the FTC complaint in the matter, Microsoft's Xbox account sign-up process asked children under 13 for their name, date of birth, email address, and phone number, all before parents got involved in the sign-up process.

The complaint also alleges that Microsoft did not specifically notify parents that information such as uploaded photos and gameplay data associated with their player ID would be collected and potentially shared with third parties. Instead Microsoft included these specifics in a Privacy Statement, which the FTC says was akin to "sending parents off on what amounted to a DIY errand."

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The historic leaks prompted legislation: yet governments are finding new ways to monitor us. The UK’s online safety bill is one of them

It’s been 10 years since Edward Snowden holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room and exposed Britain and America’s mass surveillance operations to a group of journalists. His bombshell revelations revealed how the US and UK governments were spying on their citizens, intercepting, processing and storing their data, and sharing this information. Since then, although neither state has lost its appetite for hoovering up huge amounts of personal data, new transparency and oversight constraints, together with the growth of encrypted technology, have tilted the balance towards privacy.

Snowden’s revelations sparked outrage and anger. Bulk interception was being done without a democratic mandate and with few real safeguards. When the scope of this surveillance came to light, officials claimed most of the information was not “read” and therefore its collection did not violate privacy. This was disingenuous; the data could reveal an intimate picture of someone’s life – a fact that was upheld in later legal challenges , which proved the surveillance violated privacy and human rights law.

Heather Brooke is an author, investigative journalist and a member of the Royal United Services Institute panel appointed to examine government surveillance

Duke of Sussex’s statement due to be read to High Court in lawsuit against Mirror Group

• What’s at stake for Prince Harry as he gives evidence in phone-hacking trial?

Good morning, welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of phone-hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers at the High Court in London.

Today we’re going to hear claims from the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, who is at some point – most likely tomorrow – to give evidence in person, becoming the first senior royal to be cross-examined in court since the 19th century.

Duke of Sussex is a part of a 100-strong lawsuit against Mirror Group over allegations of hacking – but his participation is unprecedented for a royal

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Prince Harry will make another unprecedented move for a senior royal t his week as he gives evidence in a phone-hacking court case against Mirror Group Newspapers, the owner of the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People. The lawsuit alleges that the company unlawfully gathered information on the prince between 1996 and 2011 that was published in its papers, and that senior executives and editors were aware of this activity. This lawsuit is one of three entirely separate but concurrent phone-hacking claims that Prince Harry is making: the other two are against Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers, and the Mail newspapers.

While he is one of the most high-profile players in the lawsuit, Harry is not the only claimant. More than 100 other people are suing the Mirror Group, including ex-footballer and TV presenter Ian Wright, Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole, and the estate of the late singer George Michael. (The Mirror Group has steadfastly denied the allegations, adding that the claimants have waited too long to sue them.)

Embedded tracking tool revealed details of users’ visits to content on depression, self-harm and eating disorders

Some of Britain’s biggest charities providing support for people with mental health problems shared details of sensitive web browsing with Facebook for use in its targeted advertising system.

The data was sent via a tracking tool embedded in the charities’ websites and included details of webpages a user visited and buttons they clicked across content linked to depression, self-harm and eating disorders.

Lenore Taylor looks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions

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Lenore Taylor remembers the pressure she felt carrying a USB stick from Sydney to Canberra with the contents of a top-secret leak implicating the Australian government in a spying scandal that reached the then president of Indonesia’s personal mobile phone.

It was 2013 – the same year that David Miranda, the late partner of former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained in Heathrow airport for nine hours after a series of stories revealed mass surveillance programs by the US National Security Agency.

It’s been a big month for US data privacy. Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee all passed state privacy laws, bringing the total number of states with a privacy law up to eight . No private right of action in any of those, which means it’s up to the states to enforce the laws.

Prime minister says he is ‘very comfortable’ with controversial rules despite former business secretary’s admission of gerrymandering

Rishi Sunak has defended new laws requiring voters to bring ID as “entirely reasonable” after Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested the move was designed to gerrymander election results in favour of the Tories.

Sunak said he was “very comfortable” with controversial rules following Rees-Mogg’s critical comments and reports that thousands of people were turned away from polling stations at the local elections in May.