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Global Government Surveillance Reform — The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world's governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information. While the undersigned companies understand …
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Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users — Eight prominent technology companies, bruised by revelations of government spying on their customers' data and scrambling to repair the damage to their reputations, are mounting a public campaign to urge President Obama …
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Revealed: spy agencies' covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online games — NSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life — Read the NSA document Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments
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China Mobile to Accept iPhone Orders This Week — China Mobile Ltd. plans to take preorders for Apple Inc.'s iPhones from Thursday in Shanghai, according to an advertisement on its website, as the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers moves closer to launching high-speed fourth-generation mobile services in the country.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Microsoft CEO Search: Stalemate — The Microsoft CEO succession process appears to be stalled. This is a company with immense human, technical, and financial resources; the tech industry is filled with intelligent, energetic, dedicated candidates. What's wrong with the matchmaking process?
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Snapchat Files For A Restraining Order, Accuses Ousted Founder Of Leaking Confidential Court Docs — Snapchat has filed for a temporary restraining order against Reggie Brown, the man who claims to have invented the idea for disappearing messages. According to court documents filed today … | Tim Wu / The New Republic: |
Binge-viewing was just the beginning. Netflix has a plan to rewire our entire culture — Given all the faces you see glued to computers, tablets, and cell phones, you might think that people watch much less television than they used to. You would be wrong.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Verizon Confirms EdgeCast Acquisition, Adding Over 6K Customers To Its Content Delivery Business — Verizon is indeed going to acquire EdgeCast Networks, a content delivery network founded in 2008 that has grown to be one of the fastest-growing Internet companies in the world.
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| Ryan Lizza / New Yorker: |
Why Won't Obama Rein in the N.S.A.? — On March 12, 2013, James R. Clapper appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to discuss the threats facing America. Clapper, who is seventy-two, is a retired Air Force general and Barack Obama's director of National Intelligence … | Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Square reveals thinner and more accurate mobile credit card reader — As Square spreads its wings to Japan, starts a new cash-by-email service and retools its mobile apps, the humble credit card reader that started it all hasn't received much attention of late.
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| Michael Lee / ZDNet: |
Google catches French govt spoofing its domain certificates — Summary: Fraudulent certificates were used in a commercial device to inspect encrypted traffic on a private network. — Michael Lee — France's cyberdefence division, Agence nationale de la sécurité des …
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