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Had i.m. buddy lists. before facebook status existed, there were im away messages. in the late 1990s and early 2000s, i m. was the way to chat with your friends. it wasnt weird that you had to be at your computer to i.m. yes. it is a verb, too. you had to be at your computer to do anything on the internet. and while you sat at your computer, you waited with this noise. and then you waited more for this one. and then you and all your buddies with embarrassing screen names could while away the hou...

Discontinuing its instant messenger in december. and that includes those buddy lists. the company says the feature is no longer useful because of the way people communicate online nowadays with todays social media profoundly changed. us. its what this country is made of. but right now, our bond is fraying. how do we get back to "us"? the y fills the gaps. and bridges our divides. donate to your local y today. because where theres a y, theres an us. with flavors youll love.re like new savory gril...

What the program is and isnt. i call out senator paul for making statements that simply do not describe the program. >> when you say that youre talking about senator paul not describing what the program actually does in terms of the metadata versus phone records versus who holds -- >> what he said is that the government is collecting your e-mails, buddy lists, content of your calls and that is not the case at all, and i think that has been proven theres never been abuse of this. it is an importa...

Implication that the foreign intelligence collection is focused on the smart phone or social media communications is not true. >> we are not interested in the communications of people who are not valid foreign intelligence targets. >> in one document, which could not be verified by cnn, the effort is described as a golden nugget. information that could be connected includes location of users, networks to which they connect, buddy lists and downloaded documents. >> this would need really tight co...

Social media communications of everyday americans is not true. at the white house, more pushback. >> we are not interested in the communications of people who are not valid foreign intelligence targets. >> reporter: the report is based on documents said to be leaked by edward snowden. in one document, which could not be verified by cnn, the effort is described as a golden nugget. information that could be collected includes location of users, networks to which they connect, websites visited, bud...

Activity. but that doesnt give the government the right to get a warrant or the judge the right to issue a warrant to spy on everybody in the state of new jersey in order to capture you and me. >> but they dont call it spying. they recorded all our phone calls. theyve got all our text messages. they can tune our phone on in our pocket and listen in if they wanted to. >> the "washington post" reported friday afternoon, shortly after the presidents speech that the nsa is capturing 500,000 buddy li...

Information? >> you can see the address book information, i think, helps us understand how they make use of these other databases that emerged as controversy over the past six months. having someones addresses can map out details of their connections to others. earlier we learned that the nsa collects metadata, records of calling information people make in the united states. if you marry that with the collection of e-mail address books, you can start to draw connections just beyond those phone n...

Custody has been transferred to a lawyer. he has been read his miranda rights. his transfer coming much sooner than expected. senior law enforcement officials telling abc news the transfer was sped up in part due to a serious health condition. a u.s. official confirming reports that al-liby has a severe case of hepatitis c, which is a viral infection that attacks the liver. over the years, al-liby apparently mistakenly assumed the u.s. had stopped looking for him. now finally he is facing justic...

It is not just your e-mails. the n.s.a. reportedly collecting information from your buddies. according to "the washington post," the agency collects half a million buddy lists from chat services and e-mail accounts. the n.s.a. insists it is not interested in the average american, telling reporters -- quote -- "the n.s.a. is focused onñi foreign intelligence targets like terrorists. were notñr interested in personal information about ordinary americans." well watch that one as well. another d...