. . "Brazil and members of the European Union are considering ways to better protect their data and U.S. technology companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are looking at ways to block the collection of data by the government.Snowden, now 30, said he is not being disloyal to the U.S. or to his former employer.I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA, he said." . . .