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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: National Security Agency

#Snowden #Prism revelations goads Google to reveal number of judicial requests by country

 In the context of the Snowden and Prism scandal, Google released a transparency report, which discloses the number of judicial requests for disclosing information about Google service users by country over a period of three years. Data has been released in the…

What and how large is PRISM, the NSA surveillance program leaked by Edward Snowden?

    According to Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) leaker, the US government has recruited several major Internet corporations, especially Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, to help it harvest emails, videos, and web traffic from unsuspecting US and foreign citizens through…

The latest on Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder

Not a billionaire, yet enjoying the limelight… Married for the third time, now to a Londoner, Jimmy Wales enjoys life among the glitterati of the world. A very entertaining and at times informative profile in the New York Times… High-minded or not,…

Snowden National Security Agency (NSA) leaker – whistleblower on the way to Ecuador, where freedom of the press is curtailed

Mr. Snowden, the former Booz Allen employee and NSA contractor who has released details about a classified data management program has left Hong Kong for Moscow with help from Wikileaks, aiming to take refuge in Ecuador, under the wing of the leftist…