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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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Tweets: @dannysullivan, @stuartmillar159, @csoghoian 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.
| 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: @dannysullivan, @ggreenwald and @samfbiddle
| 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, The Verge, CNET, AllThingsD, USA Today, Hillicon Valley, Politico, ABC News, Engadget, PC World, Gizmodo and Mashable
Tweets: @felixsalmon and @brendansasso
See also Mediagazer| 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.
| 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 … | Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
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Tweets: @scepticgeek, @adrianchen, @arrington, @joshuatopolsky and @jwherrman
| New York Times: |
How the U.S. Uses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly — WASHINGTON — When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails and other data piling up as digital communications exploded over the past decade, they turned … | Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Under the covers of the NSA's big data effort — The NSA's data collection practices have much of America — and certainly the tech community — on edge, but sources familiar with the agency's technology are saying the situation isn't as bad as it seems. Yes, the agency has a lot of data … | 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 … | Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
Purported Galaxy S 4 Zoom flaunts its profile in multiple leaks — Samsung is no stranger to teasing its fans, and with expectations running high that it'll introduce a true cameraphone — the Galaxy S 4 Zoom — in London on June 20th, you'll have to forgive us for being more than curious for what's in store.
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SamMobile, TechTastic, Electronista, Android Beat, AndroidHeadlines.com, PetaPixel, HotHardware.com News, Tech Shout!, Softpedia News, T3 News, Phones Review, BGR India, TechCrunch, Pocketnow, SlashGear, WMPoweruser, Droid Life, Unwired View, iClarified, Android Police, Pocket-lint and The Verge
| 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, LiveSide.net, T3 News, WindowsObserver.com, LiveSino, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Neowin, Engadget, WMPoweruser, Pocketnow and iClarified. Tweets: @tomwarren. Thanks:@simongates6
| 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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