Looks like surveillance defenders just lost their main talking point in defense of the NSA's (formerly) secret phone and data tracking programs: Najibullah Zazi, the would-be New York City subway ...

Edward Snowden exposed mass surveillance in 2013, but Bruce Schneier warns AI and data brokers are enabling an even more ...

Most of the discussion of the NSA's Prism program has focused on the domestic fallout, with some spillover into the question of what Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple did (or didn't) do to ...

An update and slight correction, 7:59 p.m.: A spokesperson forwarded us this message from Google's chief legal counsel David Drummond: "We cannot say this more clearly -- the government does not have ...

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 ...

THE GUARDIAN – The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to cover the costs of major internet companies involved in the Prism surveillance program after a court ruled that some of the ...

Citizens that the federal government wants to indict, the federal government can indict if it monitors them closely enough. That’s why it’s so disturbing to learn that the federal government doesn’t ...