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New PRISM Insight: Real-Time Monitoring, 100,000 Surveillance Targets
The Washington Post has unearthed more slides describing the US government’s PRISM surveillance program. And it looks like they help confirm the extent of the operation.
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Facebook Accidentally Exposes Contact Info For Six Million Users
According to a post on Facebook’s security blog, a bug in the company’s friend recommendation system exposed the contact information of some six million users to others. The bug has been present for about a year, but the company only found out about it in the last 24 hours.
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Confirmed: Court ‘Oversight’ Of NSA Surveillance Is A Joke
Although there’s been some debate on the legality of the mounds of data collected by NSA analysts during the PRISM program, House Intelligence Committee officials have confirmed that they’re totally free to rifle through your data without a court order. As long as they think they might have a reason to be suspicious — any…
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Apple Details What The NSA Took — And How Much Of It
The impact of the NSA’s secret surveillance through PRISM and other means has sent reverberations through out the tech industry and the world at large. The latest ripple: Apple’s full accounting of its interactions with government spies in the past year or so. Here’s what went down.