The defenses of the National Security Agency's program to collect and store records of every phone call and every email have not been very impressive. The NSA defenders point to a secret court that ...

If you thought the National Security Agency's collection of Verizon phone-call data was bad, wait until you hear about PRISM, the seven-year-old, previously undisclosed classified government program ...

Everyone from Mark Zuckerberg down to the average Facebook user has expressed surprised outrage at the existence of PRISM, a top-secret government program that the National Security Agency uses to ...

The exposure of the PRISM data-collection program might not fall squarely under the heading of the third annual International Cyber Security Conference, which concluded on Wednesday at Tel Aviv ...

Unless you have been living under a rock, you will have heard the news that the US government is apparently spying on almost every digital bit that passes through the nation's optical fiber highways ...

According to Thomas Drake, a former National Security Agency senior executive who blew the whistle on the agency’s reckless spending and spying in 2006, a previously unknown NSA surveillance program ...

Within 24 hours, the leak of two documents has revealed a vast network of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance operations that were authorized by FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) ...

Worried that the National Security Agency is obtaining your data through the servers of Google and Facebook? You’ve probably got nothing to worry about. On Thursday, The Guardian reported on an NSA ...

The Guardian’s latest report on spying claims Microsoft helped the National Security Agency to circumvent the company’s own encryption, according to files provided by Edward Snowden. The documents ...

CHICAGO — “Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re being watched and recorded,” 29-year-old spy Edward Snowden told the Guardian last Sunday, openly identifying himself as the whistleblower on ...

Though British political leaders on Tuesday expressed a relaxed attitude about the safety of citizen data in their country, other European lawmakers seem to be a lot less happy, as the aftershocks ...

Few stories have broken as quickly or as confusingly as this week's multiple revelations about US government spying. Initial, widely quoted, reports from the Guardian and from the Washington Post ...