A leaked NSA newsletter published Wednesday highlights the collection of phone metadata as one of the agency's "most useful tools." The document — which was leaked by Edward Snowden and published by ...

Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied Larry Klayman's emergency petition for rehearing en banc of the appeals court's decision to stay a lower court injunction against the ...

The future of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection program is in serious doubt, which raises the questions: how useful is it to the intelligence community, and what will they do if it goes away? Update: ...

The NSA's vaunted cell phone metadata collection program, often defended on the grounds that its comprehensive sweep of information allows the government to uncover unseen connections, only collected ...

Since Americans learned in June of last year that the National Security Agency collects the telephone “metadata” of virtually every phone call within the United States, little has changed in what will ...

The global surge in encrypted traffic and a wide adoption of end-to-end encryption by mainstream tech companies is a transformative shift in information security worth celebrating. Billions of online ...

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A review of top-secret NSA documents suggests that the surveillance agency still collects and sifts through large quantities of Americans' online data – despite the Obama administration's insistence ...

The National Security Agency has “quietly shut down” the mass surveillance program it implemented after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to analyze metadata ...

Many Americans don’t know quite what to make of the government harvesting reams of “metadata” from our telephone calls. For a sizeable proportion of the over-30 population, the very term “metadata” ...