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NSA Snoops Extend Ops to Online Games
2013-12-09 22:11:43| TechNewsWorld
The U.S. National Security Agency and British counterpart GCHQ have monitored the activities of online gamers, according to documents published Monday that were leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The two agencies gained access to the online Xbox Live console network, the documents suggest, as well as deploying real-life agents into the virtual realms of Blizzard's World of Warcraft and Linden Labs' Second Life.
NSA spied on Xbox Live and World of Warcraft to infiltrate terrorist groups
2013-12-09 18:00:01| Extremetech
While you might fondly call the hell-raising inhabitants of online gaming haunts like DotA and Xbox Live terrorists, the NSA and CIA both felt that certain online gaming communities are home to the real thing. So, they did what any good security agency would do, and started spying on bored gamers who are forever killing 10 rats and crafting epic gear.
Tech giants team up to battle NSA surveillance, governmental snooping
2013-12-09 15:56:32| Extremetech
Eight of the world's largest tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple, have joined forces to launch the Reform Government Surveillance website and open letter. The website specifically calls out the US government, and governments worldwide, for their over-reaching and highly opaque information gathering activities.
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Why IT execs stick with cloud computing despite NSA snooping scandal
2013-12-06 13:59:12| InfoWorld: Top News
Explosive revelations in the past six months about the U.S. government's massive cyber-spying activities have spooked individuals, rankled politicians and enraged privacy watchdogs, but top IT executives aren't panicking -- yet. So far, they are monitoring the issue, getting informed and taking steps to mitigate their risk in various ways. But the alarming reports haven't prompted them to roll back their decisions to host applications and data in the cloud.
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NSA Harvests 5 Billion Cellphone Locations Worldwide Daily: Report
2013-12-06 00:00:49| TechNewsWorld
Every day, the NSA reportedly collects nearly 5 billion cellphone location records worldwide. The information, obtained from documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, indicate the records are stored in the agency's FASCIA database. Data on Americans' cellphones both in the U.S. and abroad is collected "incidentally," the NSA contended.
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