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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his thoughts about NSA surveillance techniques in an episode of 'This Week on ABC today.' Zuckerberg thought that the government failed regarding its actions on privacy matters and calls for more transparency.

AT&T, Verizon Communications, and even tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo had been pushing for the US government to allow them to publish surveillance orders to appease shareholders in light of the revelations by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Micro-blogging site Twitter reportedly enabled Perfect Forward Security (PFS) across its mobile site, website and API feeds.

Lavabit lawyers have submitted a reply in brief to the Feds in a case that will determine whether they will hand over their master encryption keys for its entire system to the government.

Despite news of National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden accepting a job offer at the social networking site VKontakte, founder Pavel Durov said that no job offer or hiring of Snowden took place.

Lavabit LLC founder Ladar Levison posted in Facebook his detailed account of how he had put up a fight with the US government in lieu of the company's to National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Malaysian Minister Paul Low said that the government would soon utilize phone tapping and employ internet monitoring devices to eradicate corporate and government corruption.

Forrester Research Inc said concerns regarding the Prism spy project of the US National Security Agency could cost US companies USD180 million worth of business in the IT service market.

Shanghai Securities News said the Ministry of Public Security and a cabinet-level research center of China were preparing to investigate on EMC Corp, IBM Corp and Oracle Corp over security concerns.

US SEC was put under pressure for improper contractor vetting.

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