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Five ways to protect yourself from government surveillance

06/12/2013 9:16 pm ET Last week, press leaks revealed that the National Security Administration has been gathering and storing metadata from Verizon and nine Internet communication companies: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. Regardless of how you feel about the government collecting data on its citizens, take a few minutes to click through and consider these five tips for protecting yourself from government surveillance.