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Last week was another full week of tech news still dominated by new revelations about the NSA PRISM program and what will happen to the person who leaked the intel. Last week, the US government formally charged Edward Snowden with Espionage and has requested Hong Kong for his extradition. The president of the USA, Barack Obama also gave an interview defending the PRISM program and re-assuring people that their privacy is not in danger.  There were a few significant announcements made related to the gaming industry last week- the biggest of all was Microsofts announcement cancelling the two most contentious policies it planned to implement with the Xbox One. These policies were namely i. the requirement to connect to the internet once every 24 hrs, and ii. their policy on sharing and re-selling games. The Xbox One reversal was met with mixed reactions- some people calling it a victory for the gamers while others call it the death of innovation in the gaming industry. Nvidia's ...

Read, Subscribe and Contribute to Pedes3antech weekly on Flipboard T his week was still dominated by one major story- PRISM. The US government under the Obama administration has been under a lot of heat since the leaks came out of the media. This week however, the PRISM story was made even more interesting when Edward Snowden came out and faced the world. Now the people and the government can put a face to the NSA leak. This development however has put the whole debate around PRISM on the wrong direction. The government and the public dialogue has started to shift towards questions about Snowden's decision to leak. Questions about the ethics of his decision and how he has endangered (mysteriously) thousands of lives is drowning the more serious questions about Civil liberties, Individual Privacy, Limits on government powers, Government Accountability and Corporate Social responsibility. The US Senate , in one of its more sensible decisions lately, has put pre...