Potentially, everything. The PowerPoint slide about Prism says it can collect "email, chat (video, voice), videos, photos, stored data, VoIP [internet phone calls], file transfers, video conferencing, notifications of target activity – logins etc, online social networking details" and another category called "special requests".
The NSA – and so the US government – has been careful to avoid any suggestion that the monitoring is being carried out indiscriminately on US citizens, because that would potentially breach the fourth amendment of the constitution against "unreasonable search"
But people overseas get no such protections. The question then is whether UK and EU governments knew of the scheme and were compliant – and whether they could stop it even if they wanted to.
US companies that want to process private data from EU citizens have to promise a "safe harbor" – but crucially the documents do not mention tapping by US law enforcement. And if disputes arise, the rules say: "Claims brought by EU citizens against US organizations will be heard, subject to limited exceptions, in the US." That would probably mean the NSA's license to spy would trump EU complaints.
Lots of internet traffic from the west passes through the US because the destination servers are there, or connect there. Encrypting email usingPGP is one possibility, though it is not easy to set up. Systems such as, together with a virtual private network (VPN) connection, can cloak your location, though your identity might still be inferred from the sites you connect to.
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