Silicon Valley has made the US a superpower of surveillance. No other country comes close, writes Raphael Satter.

IRELAND and Iceland are seeking to fuel their hard-hit economies and exploit their position on the western edge of Europe with new data centres to be connected via a new, $300 million (€223m) transatlantic telecoms cable by 2013.

The internet suffered severe disruption across the Middle East after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were damaged.