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Is NSA Monitoring You through Your Favorite Video Games?
Classified documents leaked by fugitive Edward Snowden reveal that American and British intelligence agencies have created make-believe characters to take part in the computer games World of Warcraft and Second Life. Google, Microsoft and six other technology companies are calling for limits to government spying on their customers.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readClassified documents leaked by fugitive Edward Snowden reveal that American and British intelligence agencies have created make-believe characters to take part in the computer games World of Warcraft and Second Life. Google, Microsoft and six other technology companies are calling for limits to government spying on their customers. Unrelated to today's revelations, eight high-tech companies printed an open letter to the President and Congress. AOL, Apple, Facebook Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo say its time to "reform government surveillance practices worldwide."
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The full episode
3 of 3After Detroit, Public Pensions Are No Longer Sacred- 0:00Congress Has Just Days to Pass a 'Cease-fire' Budget Deal
- 7:43Are Government Workers Facing a Broken Promise?
- 42:52Is NSA Monitoring You through Your Favorite Video Games?You’re reading this