• Alexis C. Madrigal:
  What to make of the Apple/Google full-throated denials? Not just “no comment” but outright, “PRISM? Never heard of it!”

.@alexismadrigal @onthemedia Occurs to me that a denial might be *required* if signing up included a gag order.

?@TheAtlantic: Wake Up, US: You’re Letting Your Privacy Slip Away http://theatln.tc/13cHMuV ? // Been gone. Question is whether we’ll claw back.

• NextTechBlog:
  Why Reporting True Things Might Just Be The Future Of Journalism

• John Wonderlich:
  so is the NSA not listed here because it isn’t a “request”? http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/ ?

• Julian Sanchez:
  Kinda painful not to be in DC for this, but suuuuper interesting to be surrounded by half the privacy scholars in the country.

@normative I’m slow today. Where are you?

• Julian Sanchez:
  @jeffporten Privacy Law Scholars Conference in Berkeley

@normative Noted for next year. See you at CFP?

• Julian Sanchez:
  @jeffporten yaw

• Zach Epstein:
  PRISM is the social network you?re already a member of.

• Christopher Soghoian:
  How many more massive surveillance programs have to be leaked before we get a new Church committee style congressional investigation?

@csoghoian I think Congress is too dysfunctional to *hold* a Church commission.

Nonprofit slogan tip: probably not a good idea to put MOVE in big bold letters on baseball caps in Philly.

• Judd Legum:
  OK: Keeping detailed info about every phone call that every American makes NOT OK: Keeping a list of people who buy a gun

• Kevin van Haaren:
  magazines from 2002. don’t think i need those any more.

@kvanh Depends?if they’re tech magazines, the ads get exponentially funnier over time.

• Kevin van Haaren:
  @jeffporten good point, the ad for the 8-port modem pool is entertaining.

?@whitehouse: President Obama’s plan to bring all of America’s students into the digital age? // Sure, otherwise it’s harder to watch them.

MT?@ggreenwald: The real story is that we have this ubiquitous Surveillance State, operating in secrecy?// Real real story: this isn’t news.

The @algore tweet about surveillance being “obscene” is getting a lot of play. His Senate/VP record wasn’t quite so firmly against it, tho.

Why science reporting is screwy

@GlennF Sprint’s on record as complying immediately with gov’t data requests.

@GlennF I’ve been assuming this has gone on with AT&T since we discovered the closet in San Francisco.

• Josh Centers:
  Anyone else having a problem in the new @bbedit where it?s not accepting keyboard input?

@jcenters @bbedit That’s there to improve your skills at homeopathic writing.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  Is Verizon somehow unique in this? I am hearing boycott calls but I wonder how it could be seen as just them.

@GlennF Unsure about T-Mobile, or if Sprint includes Sprint MVNOs.