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• European Data Privacy Deal Delayed By U.S. Senate

  New Safe Harbor agreement will "likely to be held" by US Senate amidst EU officials' ultimatum to get the framework ironed out by the end of January.

• US case against Chinese economic spying opens debate on the limits of digital theft

  According to industry pundits, US' intentions on filing a lawsuit against five Chinese military men for economic espionage allows the country to call out against digital theft for economic purposes, Bloomberg reported.

• Film company purchase right to film book on Snowden

  Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed on Wednesday that it will be working on an Edward Snowden film based on the book penned by the Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald.

• Legal challenge questions GCHQ spy malware program

  The Guardian said that the legal challenge filed by Privacy International against Britain's monitoring agency GCHQ is the latest of the complaints filed by civil liberties group following the revelations of Edward Snowden on government surveillance.

• Top Web company executives to meet Obama over surveillance, data privacy

  Company sources told Reuters that Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg were one of the many executives of top Internet companies who are set to attend a meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday over privacy, technology and intelligence issues.

• Snowden's latest leak reveals month-long NSA surveillance on an entire country-worth of phone calls

  The latest leaks of government whistleblower Edward Snowden published on the Washington Post detailed National Security Agency programs MYSTIC and RETRO were used to monitor an entire telephone network-worth of phone calls over a 30-day period of at least five countries.

• Obama's NSA director nominee unusually mum about spying policy amendments

  Newly-confirmed National Security Agency director Navy Admiral Michael Rogers dodge answering questions on how he intend to change the surveillance practices at the federal agency, the Wall Street Journal said in a report.

• Snowden says NSA reform plans backs data leaks

  Edward Snowden told an audience at the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) that although his data leaks had caused change expected to happen at the National Security Agency, there is still much to be done about the US government's role in privacy and data protection of intellectual property, Reuters said.

• Federal judge rules rejects White House's request to keep surveillance records secret

  Judge Reggie Walton of the the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said that there is no reason for the need to extend the storage time of classified telephone surveillance data of the National Security Agency as fears of getting litigated by civilian plaintiffs have driven the government to make the request and not for security reasons.