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| 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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The Next Web, Gizmodo, Gawker, Lawfare, The Verge, Naked Security and Ars Technica
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @stuartmillar159, @csoghoian and @ggreenwald
| 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, Reuters, BuzzMachine, Techdirt, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Mashable, Guardian, Gawker, larry borsato, Softpedia News, Business Insider, The Register, PhoneArena, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CNET, Marketing Land, Marketing Land, GigaOM, Gizmodo, FP Passport, The Verge, SlashGear, Bitcoin Magazine, TechCrunch, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Bloggers Blog
Tweets: @adrianchen, @scepticgeek, @arrington, @joshuatopolsky, @jwherrman, @clairecm, @dannysullivan, @mathewi, @declanm, @dannysullivan, @mathewi, @dannysullivan and @pkafka
| Guardian: |
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
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Tweets: @samfbiddle, @dannysullivan and @ggreenwald
| Ron Bell / Yahoo!: |
Setting the Record Straight — We want to set the record straight about stories that Yahoo! has joined a program called PRISM through which we purportedly volunteer information about our users to the U.S. government and give federal agencies access to our user databases. These claims are false.
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VentureBeat and The Verge
| 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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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
US Gov't: PRISM Isn't Data Mining System, Doesn't Pull Data Off Servers — The United States government has declassified details of its “PRISM” program today, saying it is not a wide-spread data mining system and doesn't “unilaterally” pull information off tech company servers.
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Office of the Director …, Business Insider, CNET, Hillicon Valley, The Verge, AllThingsD, ABC News, Engadget, Politico, USA Today, PC World, Gizmodo and Mashable
Tweets: @felixsalmon and @brendansasso
See also Mediagazer| 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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ZDNet, PandoDaily, Eric Schmidt, Michael Geist Blog, HotHardware.com News, eWeek, SiliconANGLE, Salon, The Atlantic Wire, Yahoo! News, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Next Web, Forbes, Wonkblog, The Atlantic Online, Slate, Lawfare and Guardian. Tweets: @karaswisher. See also Mediagazer
| 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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The Tell, Droid Life, SlashGear, TechHive and The Technology Chronicles
| Mark Hosenball / Reuters: |
Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration is likely to open a criminal investigation into the leaking of highly classified documents that revealed the secret surveillance of Americans' telephone and email traffic, U.S. officials said on Friday.
| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
| TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Hiring Massive Sales Team, Said To Be Raising $100M At A Near $1B Valuation To Pay Them — Snapchat is aggressively recruiting sales people from Stanford as well as USC for its impending debut of a monetization scheme, we've discovered. Meanwhile it's raising $100 million …
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Haywire, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider and GigaOM
Tweets: @spolsky, @joshelman and @msuster
| 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, LiveSino, LiveSide.net, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Neowin, T3 News, WMPoweruser, Engadget, WindowsObserver.com, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow and iClarified. Tweets: @tomwarren. Thanks:@simongates6
| 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.| 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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