<p>Microsoft is the latest tech company to consider taking serious steps to prevent further surveillance, following National Security Agency (NSA) spying revelations.</p><p>According to the Washington Post, sources familiar with the matter have said Microsoft is considering encrypting its Internet traffic in light of increasing evidence that the NSA may have intercepted Internet traffic at several major tech companies.</p><p>Two previously unreleased slides from Edward Snowden's leak of classified NSA documents, show collection of online address books from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft-owned Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger. Another e-mail shows Microsoft's now-defunct account and online payment service Passport may have been a part of another NSA spying program called "MUSCULAR", that intercepted information traveling between data centers at Yahoo and Google.</p><p>Though these documents do not necessarily prove that spying took place, Microsoft and other tech companies have been taking even the possibility of this occurring very seriously.</p><p><a href="http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20131129/microsoft-moves-encrypt-data-report">Keep reading...</a></p>