ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress considers whether to extend the life of a program that sweeps up American phone records, privacy advocates...
KEN DILANIAN, AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to get a handle on hundreds of sensitive, closely held surveillance programs, a Senate committee is compiling...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans’ international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital,...
BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As soon as Mark Kim found out his personal information was compromised in a data breach at...
(New York Times) – Several foreign countries, including China, have infiltrated the computers of critical industries in the United States to steal information that could...
KEN DILANIAN, AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Dissenters within the National Security Agency, led by a senior agency executive, warned in 2009 that the program...
LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer defending the government’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records found himself facing tough questions...
(India Times) – WASHINGTON: A top US intelligence agency has built its own secret “Google-like” search engine for about two dozen government agencies to search...
(Investors.com) – While Google’s announcement that it wants to encrypt all Gmail messages while they’re in transit was praised for making government spying more difficult,...
CHERYL K. CHUMLEY, The Washington Times WASHINGTON (The Washington Times)—Adm. Michael Rogers, chief of the National Security Agency, defended his agents’ use of facial recognition technology and...
EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has conducted warrantless searches of Americans’ communications as part of the National Security Agency’s surveillance operations...
RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Documents leaked by former NSA contactor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in Angry Birds...
STEPHEN BRAUN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government review panel warned Thursday that the National Security Agency’s daily collection of Americans’ phone records is illegal...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writers MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama’s speech on U.S....
[The Washington Post] Microsoft is moving toward a major new effort to encrypt its Internet traffic amid fears that the National Security Agency may have broken into its...
[The Guardian] Private firms are selling spying tools and mass surveillance technologies to developing countries with promises that “off the shelf” equipment will allow them to snoop on...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have never seen so much venom, evil and dishonesty coming from a presidential administration as the one we...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 that brought down the World Trade Center towers in...
[UPI] NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (UPI) — Web firm guarantees that criminals and Washington can’t read encrypted emails, online banking and other data are not true, newly...
(Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has targeted most Latin American countries in its spying programs, with Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico ranking among those of highest...
[CNN] Critics who have compared President Barack Obama’s stance on government surveillance to that of hawkish former Vice President Dick Cheney are missing his insistence on...
