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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, InfoWorld, The Register, BetaNews, Computerworld, The Verge, Macworld, TechCrunch, Guardian, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, Cult of Mac, RAPPLER, App Advice, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, Reuters, iPhone Hacks and SlashGear. 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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www.idigitaltimes.co.uk and The Huffington Post
| Kimberly Dozier / Associated Press: |
Officials: NSA programs broke plots in 20 nations — WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries …
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Detroit Free Press, Ars Technica, Reuters, BBC, emptywheel, Engadget, AllThingsD, Politico and CNET. Tweets: @kevinbankston
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
U.S. Government Denies Reports That NSA Listens To Domestic Calls Without Legal Authorization — Yesterday, a CNET story that alleged that the NSA disclosed during a secret Capitol Hill briefing that its analysts can listen to domestic phone calls “simply based on an analyst deciding that …
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Julian Sanchez, Little Green Footballs, ODNI Newsroom Feed, The Week, Business Insider, ZDNet and PhoneArena
Tweets: @marcambinder, @marcambinder and @brettlogiurato
| Barton Gellman / Washington Post: |
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| Associated Press: |
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CNET, The Next Web, CNET, SlashGear, Ars Technica, Business Insider, The Atlantic Wire, Boing Boing, Guardian, emptywheel and CNET
Tweets: @csoghoian, @anildash, @jayrosen_nyu, @xor, @msbrumfield, @shiraovide, @buzzfeedben and @qthrul
| Carrie Johnson / NPR: |
| 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, Inquirer, 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 … | 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
| 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
| 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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Arab News and www.idigitaltimes.co.uk
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