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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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| 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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| 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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