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Google reveals Government takedown requests up by 68%
By Alex Hamilton published
Requests to remove information from Google's search services have skyrocketed in the last year, the company reveals.

IBM shareholder sues company over NSA cooperation
By Alex Hamilton published
Shareholder sues IBM in wake of the NSA spying controversy, claims cover-up of Chinese sales drop.

NSA even infiltrated World of Warcraft in its hunt for terrorists
By Jay McGregor published
New documents show that multiple spy agencies in the US, as well as GCHQ in the UK, used online games as way to track down terrorists.
Apple, Microsoft, Google and more fight the privacy fight with NSA-bashing letter
By Patrick Goss published
After being burned in the outrage over the NSA's access to private user data, eight tech giants have asked for changes.

Microsoft 'shares our concerns' over government snooping
By Patrick Goss published
Microsoft has insisted in a blog post that it will not roll over for government agencies, unless it has to.

Microsoft's mugs are rubbish - but they've got a point
By Carrie Marshall published
Gary Marshall Microsoft is being mocked all over the internet for its parody of the ancient and unfunny "Keep Calm and Carry On". Wait, though. Maybe Microsoft has a point.

Vint Cerf on privacy: We never really had it to begin with
By Michael Rougeau published
Google's chief internet evangelist said this week that privacy (or our sense of it) will increasingly be harder to achieve.

Take that, NSA: Yahoo lays out plan for even more encryption by early 2014
By Kevin Lee published
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer lays out plans to encrypt all data moving through the company's data centers, more.
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