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Try as it might, San Francisco based EFF can't avoid Washington — Try as it might, anti-surveillance group can't avoid Washington — SAN FRANCISCO — A jolt of pride and panic flashed through the Electronic Frontier Foundation when the first images of Edward Snowden appeared …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
The Internet's best hope for a Do Not Track standard is falling apart. Here's why. — Should businesses be forced to stop tracking your movements on the Internet? — It sounds like a simple question. But judging by the growing despair among members of a diverse group assigned … | Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy: |
Lavabit Challenges Contempt Order in the Fourth Circuit: An Analysis of Its Arguments — Today Lavabit filed a brief before the Fourth Circuit challenging a civil contempt order for its refusal to turn over its encryption key that the government wants to enable the government to conduct surveillance of Edward Snowden.
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| Walter Frick / HBR.org: |
How Twitter's Leadership Drama Explains its Success — One founder pushed aside in the early days of the company, his name scrubbed from its founding story. Another ousted from the CEO role by a co-founder, former boss, and seed investor. That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Bread, Will Shut Down The URL Shortener That Earned You Money — Yahoo has just acquired Bread, a 2.5 year old startup that had raised $3.5 million [Update: and we hear was low on cash and shopping itself around to several companies]. Bread let people make money or generate donations by designing interstitial ads.
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| Jemima Kiss / Guardian: |
Kevin Systrom, Instagram's man of vision, now eyes up world domination — The man who sold his photo-sharing app to Facebook for $1bn at the age of 28 talks about his continuing ambition for Instagram — Kevin Systrom might be the luckiest man in technology.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
You're Not Just The Product, You're The Ads (And Your Friends Should Thank You) — Word of mouth, sponsored. Trusted recommendations, promoted. Reviews from friends, endorsed. This is the new lexicon of advertising. As the world learns to ignore traditional advertising online … | Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
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Microsoft CEO Search Reveals Board Rifts — Directors Have Approached at Least Two Microsoft Executives and Eight Outsiders, Including Ford's Mulally. Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT +1.10% search for a new chief executive is exposing divisions of opinion among directors over the 38-year-old company's … | John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
TorSearch launches to be the Google of the hidden Internet — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — The newest search engine in the world is hidden in the shadows of the Internet, but it shines a light on those shadows that ordinary search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo can't.
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Acquires Coding Challenge Site Hackermeter Right Out Of The Gate, Will Shut It Down — If you were looking forward to boasting about your Hackermeter score as a means of getting your next coding gig, you're gonna have to make new plans: the two-month old startup has been acquired by Pinterest, and will be shut down.| Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
Court: NSA can continue sweeping phone data collection (Video) — The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has granted the National Security Agency (NSA) permission to continue its collection of records on all U.S. phone calls. — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced …
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| Eric Schmitt / New York Times: |
C.I.A. Warning on Snowden in '09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks — WASHINGTON — Just as Edward J. Snowden was preparing to leave Geneva and a job as a C.I.A. technician in 2009, his supervisor wrote a derogatory report in his personnel file, noting a distinct change in the young man's behavior … Sponsor Posts
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