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 ...

An NSA system called XKeyscore gives the US intelligence community full access to your email, IMs, browsing history, and social media activity. To access almost everything that you do online, all an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...