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There has been a great deal of news lately involving the rights to citizen privacy. It is a hot button issue that is becoming all the more intense as details of government surveillance programs in the US, UK and France continue to be unveiled. But Google is under fire for more than PRISM, with European watchdogs demanding they change their privacy policy, or risk legal action.

President Obama has reportedly met with the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. The five person review board is responsible for overseeing the NSA and related agencies, in order to enact new policy and create oversight for the unchecked surveillance branch.

An interesting blog post has been making the rounds on Twitter this morning. It was written by Loren Sands-Ramshaw, a self-proclaimed former employee of the NSA. In it, he offers an inside look over agency's policies, and how he feels about everything currently going on related to the spying scandal.

The development team of Mozilla Firefox has mulled over stopping the Java extension on the browser to prevent a susceptibility that runs on the identical source policy (SOP) bypass.