National Security Agency
Eight of the world's giant tech companies have published a full-page letter and website against the U.S. government's surveillance program.
Google has released its latest transparency report, and to a mild surprise, the United States (U.S.) tops the list for requesting the most user data from the search-engine organization.
Apple Inc. has published a report regarding governments requesting user information including statistics and the company’s stance on the topic.
Yahoo's denial of willingly giving "direct access" to the National Security Agency may be intact, but that doesn't mean that the NSA didn't have it, according to new revelations from former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden.
A new report has come out of Der Spiegel - one of the newspapers combing through the top-secret National Security Agency documents leaked by ex-contractor Edward Snowden - revealing a troubling email hack to the Mexican president at the time.
In an extensive interview, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said he does not have classified documents with him in Moscow, so they cannot get into the hands of the Russians or the Chinese.
Information about the surveillance programs employed by the National Security Agency keeps being published from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks. This time it's email and instant messenger lists that the U.S. agency is slurping up.
"I cross-referenced his YouTube profile through his MySpace..." - Kyle Broflovski. The kids of South Park had it right six years ago, using social media to track down terrorists. Three years later, in 2010, the National Security Agency began creating sophisticated graphs identifying the social connections of some Americans.
Recently declassified Cold War-era documents revealed that the NSA spied on anti-Vietnam War dissidents and civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr.
Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff has postponed a meeting to the U.S. to meet with President Obama over revelations of N.S.A spying in Brazil.
The details about the National Security Agency's cyber surveillance efforts continue to emerge after the Edward Snowden NSA leak earlier this summer. Each subsequent report about the NSA's powers seem to describe even more sweeping cyber surveillance capabilities than before, and this time is no different.
The U.S. Senate approved a bill Thursday that includes a provision which threatens to sanction any country that agrees to grant asylum to National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Just days after Microsoft denied extensively working with the National Security Agency and personally called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to allow for more disclosure and transparency, a large swatch of the technology industry has sent a letter to President Obama asking him for more transparency from the United States, when it comes to the NSA's surveillance program, Prism.
Microsoft, on Tuesday, pressed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to allow it to publish more information about its involvement in the NSA's PRISM program, while also denying recent assertions that it helped the NSA circumvent encryption on its online services.
Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian - the leading journalist behind the NSA metadata collection story - took a look at the Washington Post's profile of General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA. In it, he found the "crux of the NSA story" in the phrase "collect it all." But that phrase isn't unique to the NSA. Big technology companies, like Google, share that ethos too.
