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June 8, 2013, 8:50 PM

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James Ball / Guardian:
NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do  —  Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data ‘directly from the servers’ of tech firms  —  • Obama deflects criticism over NSA surveillance  —  Since Prism was first revealed …
Guardian:
Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data  —  Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing data - including figures on US collection  —  • Boundless Informant: mission outlined in four slides  —  • Read the NSA's frequently asked questions document
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Tech Companies, Bristling, Concede to Federal Surveillance Program  —  When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world's largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled.
Ron Bell / Yahoo!:
Setting the Record Straight  —  We want to set the record straight about stories that Yahoo! has joined a program called PRISM through which we purportedly volunteer information about our users to the U.S. government and give federal agencies access to our user databases.  These claims are false.
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
US Gov't: PRISM Isn't Data Mining System, Doesn't Pull Data Off Servers  —  The United States government has declassified details of its “PRISM” program today, saying it is not a wide-spread data mining system and doesn't “unilaterally” pull information off tech company servers.
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
No evidence of NSA's ‘direct access’ to tech companies  —  Sources challenge reports alleging National Security Agency is “tapping directly into the central servers.”  Instead, they say, the spy agency is obtaining orders under process created by Congress.  —  The National Security Agency …
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials  —  (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration is likely to open a criminal investigation into the leaking of highly classified documents that revealed the secret surveillance of Americans' telephone and email traffic, U.S. officials said on Friday.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Leaked Windows Phone screenshots reveal notification center, UI changes, and more  —  Microsoft has previously admitted it “ran out of time” on a Windows Phone notification center, but it looks like the company is testing early future versions of Windows Phone with this feature in place.

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