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July 3, 2014, 10:05 PM

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Panorama:
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.
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
The EU's “right to be forgotten” is a bad idea, and Google is handling it exactly the right way  —  This week, Google has begun notifying British media outlets that some of their news articles may not be available to UK audiences as a result of a European Union court decision enshrining the …
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Kellex / Droid Life:
Verizon Prepaid is Finally Getting 4G LTE, Likely on July 17  —  According to sources of ours, Verizon prepaid is finally getting access to the carrier's massive 4G LTE network come July 17.  As those of you in the prepaid game know, Verizon has lagged behind others in terms of prepaid data speeds …
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 …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Becomes A Local Party Discovery Tool With “Events For You” Redesign  —  Just because you weren't invited, doesn't mean Facebook can't help you crash the party.  Facebook Events on the web got a slick visual overhaul today that includes a new “Events For You” tab that recommends gatherings …
Tweets: @joshconstine
comScore:
Android, Windows Phone market share unchanged from 3 months ago, iOS up 0.6%, BlackBerry down 0.6%  —  comScore Reports May 2014 U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Market Share  —  Smartphones Achieve 70 Percent Mobile Market Share  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
Mark Scott / New York Times:
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 …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
miniLock: A free and open-source browser plugin to let anyone easily encrypt and decrypt files  —  The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything  —  Encryption is hard.  When NSA leaker Edward Snowden wanted to communicate with journalist Glenn Greenwald via encrypted email …
Tweets: @micahflee
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.

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