"There was nobody in NSA who really had a full understanding of how the program was operating at the time." That's an intelligence official's one-line summary of thousands of documents released by the ...

A federal appeals court has brought a case against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) phone surveillance program back from the dead. Back in 2013, U.S. District Judge William Pauley dismissed the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The legal authority for U.S. spy agencies' collection of Americans' phone records and other data expired at midnight on Sunday after the U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation ...

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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 ...

In a decision that is sure to irk privacy advocates, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled that the National Security Agency (NSA) can temporarily resume its once-secret bulk collection of ...

House Speaker John Boehner chided President Barack Obama’s plans to overhaul the National Security Agency’s surveillance program, saying that Obama has “failed to adequately explain the necessity’’ of ...

President Barack Obama hosted a group of high-profile technology executives at the White House on Tuesday as he grapples with growing unrest over the National Security Agency’s massive domestic ...

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 06: A woman uses her phone while walking past a Verizon Store on June 6, 2013 in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. News leaked yesterday, June 5, that the U.S. government had ...

NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. spying program that systematically collects millions of Americans' phone records is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, putting pressure on Congress ...

On June 11, 2013, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the National Security Agency’s mass collection of Americans’ phone records. The complaint argues that the dragnet violates the ...