(Telegraph) – The FBI is operating a small air force of surveillance planes flying across the US and registered under fake company names. The low-flying...
LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press KEN DILANIAN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The unprecedented and unwarranted bulk collection of the entire U.S. population’s phone records by...
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...
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,...
Nathan Mattise, ARS TECHNICA (ArsTechnica.com)—This holiday season, the NSA participated in a longstanding media tradition—dumping a large bit of news during a busy period of...
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...
(IT Pro Portal) – Google has just published its latest transparency report, which shows how often governments around the world have leaned on the search giant...
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,...
[THE INQUIRER] EDWARD SNOWDEN AND GOOGLE have joined the Reset the Net campaign, with the latter releasing the source code for a Chrome extension that provides easy...
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...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he has called President Barack Obama to express his frustration over what...
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....
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...
CHILMARK, Mass. — Each morning this week, Susan E. Rice has called or come to a secluded contemporary house here, intelligence reports at hand, to brief...
[PC World] Microsoft does not give the National Security Agency direct access to its customers’ email or instant messages, contrary to previous news reports, a company...
(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...
