If you are worried about the US spying on  you, you need to stop using Google and Facebook, Germany’s top security official  has warned.

Internet users who fear their data is being  intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies such as the National Security Agency’s  should stay away from American websites run through American servers, Interior  Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said.

Leaked revelations about the NSA’s wholesale  information on foreign web users has prompted outrage in Europe and calls for  tighter international rules on data protection.

Don’t Google me: Those afraid of being spied on online  should stay away from US websites, German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich  says

Leaks by Edward Snowden, a former NSA systems  analyst, have revealed the NSA’s sweeping data collection of U.S. phone records  and some Internet traffic.

According to U.S. intelligence officials, the  programs target foreigners and terrorist suspects mostly overseas.

Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told  reporters in Berlin on Wednesday that ‘whoever fears their communication is  being intercepted in any way should use services that don’t go through American  servers.’

Friedrich says German officials are in touch  with their U.S. counterparts ‘on all levels’ and a delegation is scheduled to  fly to Washington next week to discuss the claims that ordinary citizens and  even European diplomats were being spied upon.

Leak: Whistleblower Edward Snowden, revealed that the US  National Security Agency collected date of phone records and some Internet  traffic of average citizens

In the wake of the NSA scandal, Friedrich defended the intelligence unit’s methods against German criticism.

In an interview with Welt am Sontag the  Interior minister said that that  turning against the US is ‘not how you deal  with friends who are in the  fight against terrorism, our most important  partners’

Meanwhile, Snowden is now running out of  countries that will take him in – a growing list have either denied his request  for asylum or insisted that he make an application on their soil.

Earlier today Bolivia’s president Evo Morales  attacked US ‘aggression’ after his plane was rerouted last night amid suspicions  that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board.

Morales’s officials claim that his plane was  forced to land in Austria because France and other European governments  countries refused to let it cross their airspace.

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