Saturday 15 June 2013

It's not just phones: the NSA is getting information from Facebook, Google and more

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Edward SnowdenMeet Edward Snowden: The NSA Surveillance Whistleblower

The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of?...?[Read More]

WazeReport: Google to Buy Waze for $1.3 Billion

Sources inform ?Globes? that Google will acquire Waze for $1.3 billion. The acquisition of the Israeli navigation app and traffic report start-up will be completed after months of reports that Waze would be sold to either Google or Facebook. Ra?anana-based Waze has almost 50 million users. This is a big number for an Israeli company, which?...?[Read More]

PRISMPRISM: NSA, FBI Mining Google, Facebook, More for Our Data

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington?...?[Read More]

Video GamesStudy: Gaming Helps Teens Learn ?Ethical Decision Making?

If your teenagers are too immersed in video games to take out the garbage or finish homework, it might not be all bad. They may be learning how to be better future citizens. Kathy Sanford, an education professor at the University of Victoria, has heard all the downsides of kids hooked on video game play. But through a five-year?...?[Read More]

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NSA & VerizonIf You?re A Verizon Customer, Your Phone Calls Aren?t As Private As You Think They Are

Since April 25, and running through July 19, Verizon has been giving the National Security Agency (NSA) daily information on all calls, both domestic and international. First reported by The Guardian, this transference of data comes after a ?top secret court order issued in April.??[Read More]

Shelly Palmer Digital Leadership Podcast Episode #39 ? Brandon Barnett, Director of Business Innovation, Intel

Intel ? along with SecondMuse, the White House and more than 20 government agencies ? recently sponsored the National Day of Civic Hacking, which featured teams of more than 5,000 techies, citizens and activists in more than 85 cities that participated to create new apps and solutions for the common good using publicly available open data. So what does that actually mean and how could it help your daily life??Listen Now or Get it on iTunes

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