If your weekend was spent with cavorting with family and friends, or perhaps you just didn’t fancy sitting and staring at a screen, fear not, The Next Web has got all the tech news you missed from the last two days covered:

Over the weekend:

• Open Data is Transforming Democracy in Africa but it Faces Challenges
• ParaShoot is a Tiny, Wearable HD Video Recorder
• Square Co-Founder Tristan O’Tierney Exits the Company
• The Personal Cloud that Tomorrow Needs
• Pandora, Zillow, and Brightcove are back on the NASDAQ’s Internet

PRISM & Privacy:

• PRISM Update: Recent Reports you Shouldn’t Miss
• Woz talks iOS 7 and PRISM in an off the cuff airport interview
• Facebook Releasing FISA Orders Following PRISM Uproar
• Microsoft Joins Facebook in Partial FISA Disclosure
• Briefing with NSA Officials Attract Just Half of the Senate
• Forget PRISM, the recent NSA leaks are plain: Digital privacy

Good reads:

• Latin America’s Wanna-be Silicon Valleys and the Need for Immigration
• Can the Surface Pro Be At Home in the Office?
• The Rise of EdTech
• The 24 Most Beautiful Typefaces Released This Month

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• Project Loon: Google Plans Balloon Network to Extend Internet Reach [The Guardian]
• U.S. Surveillance Architecture Includes Collection of Revealing Internet, Phone Metadata [The Washington Post]
• GCHQ Intercepted Foreign Politicians’ Communications at G20 Summits [The Guardian]
• Secret to PRISM Program: Even Bigger Data Seizure [The Big Story]