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Investigation of leaked source code reveals NSA tracks users of Tor website, calls visitors to Tails and Linux Journal sites “extremists” — NSA targets the privacy-conscious — The investigation discloses the following: Two servers in Germany - in Berlin and Nuremberg - are under surveillance by the NSA.
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Bruce Schneier and other security experts believe code leaks originate from a NSA leaker other than Snowden — Is there Another NSA Leaker? — This morning a partial analysis of the NSA's XKEYSCORE code was published in Germany. Jacob Applebaum, an evangelist for the The Onion Project (TOR), was one of the authors.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Goldman says Google has blocked email with leaked client data — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) on Wednesday said Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has blocked access to an email containing confidential client data that a contractor sent to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake …
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London Transport Regulator Says Uber Can Legally Operate — LONDON - In the battle between Europe's taxi drivers and the ride-sharing service Uber, score one for Uber. — On Thursday, London's transport regulator said that Uber, the West Coast technology start-up that has faced protests …
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| Nick Summers / Businessweek: |
How Tinder, created by a team of five, mythologized its founding story and excluded plaintiff Whitney Wolfe — Tinder's Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths — Whitney Wolfe, a former vice president for marketing at Tinder, the wildly popular hookup facilitation app …
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Google bans porn from its ad network — Google is getting out of the porn advertising business. The changes, which went into effect late Monday, prohibit any promotion of most sexually themed sites, specifically those that feature “graphic sexual acts with intent to arouse including sex acts such as masturbation.”
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| Joe Rossignol / 9to5Google: |
EFF warns that Android might be broadcasting your location history, Google investigating possible changes — Last month, Apple quietly unveiled a new feature in iOS 8 that automatically scrambles an iOS device's MAC address when it is searching for Wi-Fi networks.
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Consumer privacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center files complaint with the FTC over controversial Facebook study — Privacy watchdog files complaint over Facebook study — SAN FRANCISCO — A privacy watchdog group filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger Finally Gets An iPad Version — Three years after Facebook acquired Beluga and turned it into Messenger for smartphones, its dedicated chat app today got a version specially designed for iPad rather than just running as an enlarged iPhone app.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU — The EU's Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the fallout. For some searches, you can't find their news stories relating to certain people.
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Tweets: @mathewi, @jimmy_wales, @pmarca, @dannysullivan, @robpegoraro and @beschizza
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Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone — Microsoft + Wearables — Yes, it's real. It's just not a watch — Everyone's doing it, it seems. Samsung jumped in first. Google formalized it on Android just this past week.
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Charles River Ventures Raises $393 Million For Its 16th Fund — Charles River Ventures, the early stage venture capital firm that's jointly based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Silicon Valley, has raised $393 million for a new investment fund, according to documents filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Google launches official Android Wear companion app, new section for Wear apps on Play Store — Google tonight made a pair of enhancements to the Play Store for the lucky people with an Android Wear device. First off, the company has released the official Android Wear companion app for Android.Sponsor Posts
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