Google Officially Buys Waze in a $1 Billion-Plus Deal, Will Keep It Independent  —  Google this morning said it had acquired mapping startup Waze, as we had expected it would.  —  Brian McClendon, who is the company's vice president of geo, paid tribute to the Waze community multiple times in a blog post.

Waze Joins Google!  —  I am excited to announce today that we have accepted an offer to join Google.  I'd like to share some information about what this means for Waze.  —  Larry Page, Brian McClendon and the Google Maps teams have been following our progress closely and are excited about what we've accomplished.

Connecting The PRISM Dots: My New Theory  —  The PRISM story firmly changed course yesterday when The Guardian published a video interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  If you haven't watched the interview, you should.  It's historic and fascinating.

86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying  —  Today, a bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies - including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union …

US senators bid to force government to reveal secret surveillance rulings  —  Bill would compel government to disclose opinions of secret Fisa court whose judgments underpin US surveillance programs  —  A bipartisan group of eight senators will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would force …

How Edward J. Snowden Orchestrated a Blockbuster Story  —  WASHINGTON — The source had instructed his media contacts to come to Hong Kong, visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask — loudly — for directions to another part of the hotel.

StopWatching.Us: Mozilla launches massive campaign on digital surveillance  —  Last week, media reports emerged that the US government is requiring vast amounts of data from Internet and phone companies via top secret surveillance programs.  The revelations, which confirm many of our worst fears …