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The European Union (EU) is [worried / worries] about a top-secret American surveillance program that has [spy / spied] on its citizens. "Surveillance" means looking at the [day / daily] actions of spies and criminals. EU officials are angry [that / what] the program (called PRISM) spied on normal EU citizens. The company that operates PRISM [accessed / accessing] millions of e-mails and personal [data / letter] from Google, Facebook, Apple and other e-mail [provisions / providers] . EU spokesman Tonio Borg said the EU wants the USA to [promise / promising] it will respect the rights of European citizens. He said the USA must not look [by / at] the personal information of Europeans. He is angry because US laws say PRSIM cannot spy on Americans, unless they are [possible / possibility] terrorists.

PRISM has the [powerful / power] to get the emails and phone records of [none- / non-] -US nationals. It can also [tap / top] into voice chat, videos and social networking details. A [reporting / reporter] from Britain's "The Guardian" newspaper said PRISM workers could [accessible / access] anyone's emails or phone calls at [any / every] time. Dutch lawmaker Sophia Veld said: "500 million Europeans were [shocked / shocking] to find a foreign nation has access to every intimate [detail / details] of their private lives.” A former CIA worker, Edward Snowden, 29, [leaked / leaky] secret documents about the surveillance program to "The Guardian" last week. Mr Snowden is currently in hiding in Hong Kong. The USA says he has [breaking / broken] the law. Moscow has said Snowden may be able to live safely in Russia.