A media shield law that is being debated in the U.S. Congress, a bid to protect reporters with confidential sources, has divided journalists and free-speech advocates. Earlier this year, after a political firestorm over the government’s seizure of reporters’ phone logs, the White House ...

The National Security Agency began mining Americans' email and phone data in 2010 to map out their social connections and locations, according to The New York Times.

Lawmakers overseeing U.S. spy agencies proposed stricter limits on the government’s electronic surveillance Thursday while also calling for bolstering its authority to track terrorism suspects coming to America. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, defended the National Security Agency’s collection of phone ...

The fingerprint-based security system used to unlock Apple’s latest iPhone can be bypassed using a household printer and some wood glue, a German hacking group has claimed. A spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club said the group managed to fool the biometric sensor in ...

Privacy in the traditional sense is most certainly dead. But the killer isn't the NSA. It's the Internet itself — or, more to the point, our entire reliance on it

The U.S. National Security Agency shares raw surveillance data with Israel without first removing information about American citizens, according to a document leaked to The Guardian newspaper by former agency contractor Edward Snowden. The arrangement is described in a memorandum between the two countries ...

The U.S. National Security Agency for almost three years searched a massive database of Americans’ phone call records in an attempt to identify potential terrorists, in violation of court-approved privacy rules, and the problem went unfixed because no one at the agency had a ...

Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday. The move is ...

The U.S. government suspects that individuals with connections to al-Qaida and other hostile groups have repeatedly sought to obtain jobs in the intelligence community, and it reinvestigates thousands of employees each year to reduce the threat that one of its own may be trying ...