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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 …
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| Ron Bell / Yahoo!: |
Setting the Record Straight — We want to set the record straight about stories that Yahoo! has joined a program called PRISM through which we purportedly volunteer information about our users to the U.S. government and give federal agencies access to our user databases. These claims are false.
| Guardian: |
Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data — Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing data - including figures on US collection — • Boundless Informant: mission outlined in four slides — • Read the NSA's frequently asked questions document
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| Google: |
From +David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer: We cannot say this more clearly—the government does not have access to Google servers—not directly, or via a back door, or a so-called drop box. Nor have we received blanket orders of the kind being discussed in the media. It is quite wrong to insinuate otherwise.
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How the U.S. Uses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly — WASHINGTON — When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails and other data piling up as digital communications exploded over the past decade, they turned … | 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.
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Analyzing Yahoo's PRISM non-denial — Today, Yahoo's General Counsel posted a carefully worded denial regarding the company's alleged participation in the NSA PRISM program. To the casual observer, it might seem like a categorical denial. I do not believe that Yahoo's denial is as straightforward as it seems.
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| TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Hiring Massive Sales Team, Said To Be Raising $100M At A Near $1B Valuation To Pay Them — Snapchat is aggressively recruiting sales people from Stanford as well as USC for its impending debut of a monetization scheme, we've discovered. Meanwhile it's raising $100 million … | 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.
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Windows Phone Central, My Nokia Blog, WMPoweruser, LiveSide.net, LiveSino, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, WindowsObserver.com, T3 News, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Neowin, Engadget, Pocketnow and iClarified. Tweets: @tomwarren. Thanks:@simongates6
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Joins Sequoia Capital — AdMob founder Omar Hamoui is joining Sequoia Capital, we've learned. Sequoia confirmed that Hamoui is joining the firm as an investment partner and will be starting in a few weeks. — Hamoui's mobile ad platform AdMob was sold to Google …
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| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
Purported Galaxy S 4 Zoom flaunts its profile in multiple leaks — Samsung is no stranger to teasing its fans, and with expectations running high that it'll introduce a true cameraphone — the Galaxy S 4 Zoom — in London on June 20th, you'll have to forgive us for being more than curious for what's in store.| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Vine Passes Instagram In Total Twitter Shares — Still not sure about the idea of making and sharing six-second looping videos? Consider this: On Friday there were more Vines shared on Twitter than Instagram photos. — According to Topsy Analytics, there were about 2.37 million links … | New York Times: |
U.S. Helps Allies Trying to Battle Iranian Hackers — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has begun helping Middle Eastern allies build up their defenses against Iran's growing arsenal of cyberweapons, and will be doing the same in Asia to contain computer-network attacks from North Korea, according to senior American officials.
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