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Apple's Commitment to Customer Privacy — Two weeks ago, when technology companies were accused of indiscriminately sharing customer data with government agencies, Apple issued a clear response: We first heard of the government's “Prism” program when news organizations asked us about it on June 6.
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BBC, Telegraph, iMore, Fortune, InfoWorld, The Register, CNET, BetaNews, The Verge, Computerworld, Macworld, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Guardian, Macgasm, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Cult of Mac, RAPPLER, App Advice, TUAW, Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @csoghoian
| USA Today: |
3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so — In a roundtable discussion, a trio of former National Security Agency whistle-blowers tell USA TODAY that Edward Snowden succeeded where they failed. — When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Apple says it received 4,000-5,000 data requests from US officials in the last 6 months — Apple has spoken up about the US government's PRISM program and revealed that between December 2012 and May 2013 the firm received 4,000-5,000 requests for user data from the government .
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| Kimberly Dozier / Associated Press: |
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Ars Technica, Detroit Free Press, Reuters, BBC, emptywheel, CNET, Engadget, AllThingsD and Politico. Tweets: @kevinbankston
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung to launch faster Galaxy S4 smartphone — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co plans to sell a variation of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone that will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed, the head of its mobile business said on Monday. — J.K. Shin, also co-chief executive …
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Engadget, CNET, The Next Web, Inquirer, The Droid Guy, Pocketnow, BGR India, Sammy Hub, Phones Review, SlashGear and Android Beat. Tweets: @benedictevans
| Guardian: |
GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits — Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009 — Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 … | David Barrett / Telegraph: |
Google builds new system to eradicate child porn images from the web — Google, the internet giant, is to create a global database of child abuse images - which it will share with its rival companies - in a bid to eradicate child pornography from the web. — Google engineers are working … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox Music and Windows Store redesigns revealed in Windows 8.1 alongside new apps — Microsoft is tweaking a number of its built-in apps for Windows 8.1, but the Music app appears to include the most changes. A freshly redesigned copy of the Windows Store in leaked builds of Windows 8.1 … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix — Zombie lawsuit back and wants to suck the brains out of Linux — IBM's lawsuit with SCO over just who owns Unix has crawled out of the grave and seems set to shuffle back into US courts. — For the uninitiated, or those who've successfully tried …
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Groklaw and AllThingsD
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20 — We've been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely.| Kadhim Shubber / Wired.co.uk: |
ISPs to include porn filters as standard in UK by 2014 — Parental filters for pornographic content will come as a default setting for all homes in the UK by the end of 2013, says David Cameron's special advisor on preventing the sexualisation and commercialisation of childhood, Claire Perry MP.
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The Next Web, T3 News and Softpedia News
| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Saudi Arabia may block WhatsApp within weeks — Popular mobile chat app warned of possible blockage after voice and messaging app Viber was blocked last week. — Saudi Arabia plans to block WhatsApp in coming weeks if the makers of the mobile chat app don't comply with local regulations.
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Guardian, Arab News and www.idigitaltimes.co.uk
| Washington Post: |
State photo-ID databases become troves for police — The faces of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases that state officials assembled to prevent driver's-license fraud but that increasingly are used by police to identify suspects, accomplices and even innocent bystanders …
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