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Barbara van Schewick / Center for Internet and Society:

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Unnamed Phone Company Challenges NSA's Bulk Records Collection; FISC Says It's Perfectly Legal

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Why Do So Many People Describe Aereo ‘Complying’ With Copyright Law As The Company ‘Circumventing’ Copyright Law? — We mentioned this briefly in our writeup of the oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the Aereo case, but I wanted to focus in on one particularly annoying issue that has come …

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Re/code:

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More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Pocketnow and Wired. Tweets: @alexia

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Apple and Samsung will go into overtime to address key patent issue in court — Apple and Samsung will get a little more time in court than originally planned, after a California judge said both sides should be able to present additional evidence to clarify the wording associated with one of Apple's key patents.

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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

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