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Donald Trump: To stop ISIS recruiting, maybe we should be talking to Bill Gates about ‘closing that Internet up in some way’

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“The idea actually sounds similar to Hillary Clinton’s,” Robert Hackett reports for Fortune. “The year’s top presidential contenders have begun floating their plans to combat the self-identified Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).” “Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is floating the idea of employing Silicon Valley’s ‘great disrupters’ to block the extremist group’s online…

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Hillary Clinton: We need to put Silicon Valley tech firms to ‘work at disrupting ISIS’

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“Hillary Clinton said on Sunday that the Islamic State had become ‘the most effective recruiter in the world’ and that the only solution was to engage American technology companies in blocking or taking down militant websites, videos and encrypted communications,” David E. Sanger reports for The New York Times. “‘You are going to hear all…

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U.S. appeals court rules NSA bulk collection of phone data illegal

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the U.S. National Security Agency`s massive collection of phone records of Americans is illegal, saying it exceeds the scope of what Congress authorized. The court said in a 97-page opinion that the laws used as a basis for the bulk data collection “have never been interpreted…

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