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Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data — Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing data - including figures on US collection — • Boundless Informant: mission outlined in four slides — • Read the NSA's frequently asked questions document| James Ball / Guardian: |
NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do — Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data ‘directly from the servers’ of tech firms — • Obama deflects criticism over NSA surveillance — Since Prism was first revealed …
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Tech Companies, Bristling, Concede to Federal Surveillance Program — When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world's largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled.
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David Simon, Techdirt, Reuters, Guardian, TechCrunch, GeekWire, BuzzMachine, Mashable, Marketing Land, Gawker, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, FP Passport, The Register, ABC News, Wall Street Journal, GigaOM, CNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, Bitcoin Magazine, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Wired, Bloggers Blog, VentureBeat, ZDNet, googleblog.blogspot.ca, Quartz, ReadWrite, CNNMoney.com, Macgasm, bizjournals, DSLreports, TechHive, PC World, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Yahoo! News, WebProNews and AllFacebook
Tweets: @adrianchen, @scepticgeek, @arrington, @joshuatopolsky, @jwherrman, @clairecm, @dannysullivan, @mathewi, @declanm, @dannysullivan, @mathewi, @dannysullivan and @pkafka
| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
No evidence of NSA's ‘direct access’ to tech companies — Sources challenge reports alleging National Security Agency is “tapping directly into the central servers.” Instead, they say, the spy agency is obtaining orders under process created by Congress. — The National Security Agency …
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Michael Geist Blog, ZDNet, Eric Schmidt, eWeek, SiliconANGLE, The Atlantic Wire, Salon, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Forbes, Mashable, iDigital Times, Slate, Wonkblog, Lawfare, The Atlantic Online, Washington Post and Guardian. Tweets: @karaswisher. See also Mediagazer
| Google: |
From +David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer: We cannot say this more clearly—the government does not have access to Google servers—not directly, or via a back door, or a so-called drop box. Nor have we received blanket orders of the kind being discussed in the media. It is quite wrong to insinuate otherwise.
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Cowards — Will not one tech CEO stand up and tell the truth? — The NSA story of the secret assassination of the Fourth Amendment continues to unfold. Today we heard from Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. — Page was confused (the title of his post is “What the...?).
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Tech Giants Built Segregated Systems For NSA Instead Of Firehoses To Protect Innocent Users From PRISM — The NSA may have wanted full firehoses of data from Google, Facebook and other tech giants, but the companies attempted to protect innocent users from monitoring via compliance systems …
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Droid Life, SlashGear, TechHive and The Technology Chronicles
| Marc Ambinder / The Week: |
Solving the mystery of PRISM — What exactly is PRISM? How does it work? Who uses it? Let's assume that the companies whose data is sucked in by a National Security Agency tool called PRISM are denying their knowledge of the word and its associations in good faith.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
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| New York Times: |
U.S. Helps Allies Trying to Battle Iranian Hackers — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has begun helping Middle Eastern allies build up their defenses against Iran's growing arsenal of cyberweapons, and will be doing the same in Asia to contain computer-network attacks from North Korea, according to senior American officials.
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Softpedia News, CNET and Business Insider
| Reuters: |
Intel offers to pay up for Internet TV programming deals — (Reuters) - Intel Corp's talks to buy content from media companies for its new TV service are advancing, and the chipmaker is offering to pay as much as 75 percent more than traditional cable rates, people familiar with the talks said.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked Windows Phone screenshots reveal notification center, UI changes, and more — Microsoft has previously admitted it “ran out of time” on a Windows Phone notification center, but it looks like the company is testing early future versions of Windows Phone with this feature in place.
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Windows Phone Central, TechCrunch, LiveSide.net, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Neowin, T3 News, WMPoweruser, Engadget, WindowsObserver.com, Pocketnow and iClarified. Tweets: @tomwarren. Thanks:@simongates6
| Stephen Lawson / Computerworld: |
DOJ clears Softbank's acquisition of Sprint Nextel — The agency has dropped a request for more time to review the proposed deal — The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday it has no objection to Softbank acquiring Sprint Nextel, a decision that clears the way for the Federal Communications Commission to rule on the deal.
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