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June 8, 2013, 5:35 PM

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James Ball / Guardian:
NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do  —  Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data ‘directly from the servers’ of tech firms  —  • Obama deflects criticism over NSA surveillance  —  Since Prism was first revealed …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Tech Companies, Bristling, Concede to Federal Surveillance Program  —  When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world's largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled.
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
No evidence of NSA's ‘direct access’ to tech companies  —  Sources challenge reports alleging National Security Agency is “tapping directly into the central servers.”  Instead, they say, the spy agency is obtaining orders under process created by Congress.  —  The National Security Agency …
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
US Gov't: PRISM Isn't Data Mining System, Doesn't Pull Data Off Servers  —  The United States government has declassified details of its “PRISM” program today, saying it is not a wide-spread data mining system and doesn't “unilaterally” pull information off tech company servers.
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Cowards  —  Will not one tech CEO stand up and tell the truth?  —  The NSA story of the secret assassination of the Fourth Amendment continues to unfold.  Today we heard from Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.  —  Page was confused (the title of his post is “What the...?).
Marc Ambinder / The Week:
Solving the mystery of PRISM  —  What exactly is PRISM?  How does it work?  Who uses it?  Let's assume that the companies whose data is sucked in by a National Security Agency tool called PRISM are denying their knowledge of the word and its associations in good faith.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Leaked Windows Phone screenshots reveal notification center, UI changes, and more  —  Microsoft has previously admitted it “ran out of time” on a Windows Phone notification center, but it looks like the company is testing early future versions of Windows Phone with this feature in place.
Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:
DOJ clears Softbank's acquisition of Sprint Nextel  —  The agency has dropped a request for more time to review the proposed deal  —  The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday it has no objection to Softbank acquiring Sprint Nextel, a decision that clears the way for the Federal Communications Commission to rule on the deal.

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