The U.S. National Security Agency was sued on Tuesday by Wikimedia and other groups challenging one of its mass surveillance programs that they said violates Americans' privacy and makes individuals worldwide less likely to share sensitive information. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Maryland, ...
The ruling coalition's bill to set up a Diet committee to oversee government designations of "state secrets" needs drastic revision as it does not give the committee effective power to rectify classifications.
WikiLeaks reveals why Asia should skip the TPP
You know the U.S. has a transparency problem when people need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to proposed rules on Internet use, labor and environmental and food-safety standards of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The Abe administration wants a tougher secrecy law that imposes a prison term of up to 10 years on leakers of "special secrets" concerning foreign and national policy, in line with its plan to create a Japanese version of the U.S. National Security Council. After ...
