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Apple's Commitment to Customer Privacy — Two weeks ago, when technology companies were accused of indiscriminately sharing customer data with government agencies, Apple issued a clear response: We first heard of the government's “Prism” program when news organizations asked us about it on June 6.
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TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Engadget, CNET, Guardian, The Verge, Reuters and SlashGear. Tweets: @csoghoian
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Apple says it received 4,000-5,000 data requests from US officials in the last 6 months — Apple has spoken up about the US government's PRISM program and revealed that between December 2012 and May 2013 the firm received 4,000-5,000 requests for user data from the government .
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The Huffington Post and Reuters
| USA Today: |
3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so — In a roundtable discussion, a trio of former National Security Agency whistle-blowers tell USA TODAY that Edward Snowden succeeded where they failed. — When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details …
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After Profits, Defense Contractor Faces the Pitfalls of Cybersecurity — WASHINGTON — When the United Arab Emirates wanted to create its own version of the National Security Agency, it turned to Booz Allen Hamilton to replicate the world's largest and most powerful spy agency in the sands of Abu Dhabi.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
U.S. Government Denies Reports That NSA Listens To Domestic Calls Without Legal Authorization — Yesterday, a CNET story that alleged that the NSA disclosed during a secret Capitol Hill briefing that its analysts can listen to domestic phone calls “simply based on an analyst deciding that …
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| Kimberly Dozier / Associated Press: |
Officials: NSA programs broke plots in 20 nations — WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries …
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Detroit Free Press, Ars Technica, Reuters, BBC, emptywheel, AllThingsD, Engadget, Politico and CNET. Tweets: @kevinbankston
| Timothy B. Lee / Washington Post: |
NSA-proof encryption exists. Why doesn't anyone use it? — Computer programmers believe they know how to build cryptographic systems that are impossible for anyone, even the U.S. government, to crack. So why can the NSA read your e-mail? — Last week, leaks revealed that the Web sites … | Barton Gellman / Washington Post: |
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| Guardian: |
GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits — Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009 — Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 … | David Barrett / Telegraph: |
Google builds new system to eradicate child porn images from the web — Google, the internet giant, is to create a global database of child abuse images - which it will share with its rival companies - in a bid to eradicate child pornography from the web. — Google engineers are working … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox Music and Windows Store redesigns revealed in Windows 8.1 alongside new apps — Microsoft is tweaking a number of its built-in apps for Windows 8.1, but the Music app appears to include the most changes. A freshly redesigned copy of the Windows Store in leaked builds of Windows 8.1 …
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BGR India, Engadget, VentureBeat, Electronista, T3 News, Softpedia News and Windows Phone Central
| Colin Freeze / Globe and Mail: |
How Canada's shadowy metadata-gathering program went awry — A week ago, most Canadians were unlikely to have heard of Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) and its program gathering “metadata” on untold numbers of global phone calls and online messages.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
AT&T GoPhone plans to support LTE, drop most data add-ons on June 21st (updated) — AT&T hinted that it was shaking up its GoPhone plans later this month, and it's making good on its word. As of June 21st, customers using the prepaid service will have access to the same LTE service …
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