A leaked NSA newsletter published Wednesday highlights the collection of phone metadata as one of the agency's "most useful tools." The document — which was leaked by Edward Snowden and published by ...

Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied Larry Klayman's emergency petition for rehearing en banc of the appeals court's decision to stay a lower court injunction against the ...

Phone metadata would remain with the phone providers rather than in vast government data centers. President Obama this week outlined a plan that would stop the government's bulk collection of ...

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said no this week to tracking your movements using data from your cell phone without a warrant when it declared that this information is constitutionally ...

The government's widespread collection of phone metadata is probably unconstitutional, a district judge ruled this week. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon granted the plaintiffs' request for an ...

The future of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection program is in serious doubt, which raises the questions: how useful is it to the intelligence community, and what will they do if it goes away? Update: ...

In 1999, according to an N.S.A. Inspector General report leaked by Edward Snowden, lawyers at the Clinton Justice Department ruled that searching telephone metadata amounted to unauthorized ...

The USA FREEDOM Act as it stands will make Americans less safe while contributing little or nothing to their privacy. The bulk collection program the bill abolishes grew from a very real intelligence ...

Trump’s 21-Point Plan Misses the Only Point That Matters The Tricky Politics of Government Shutdowns Marjorie Taylor Greene Earns Her Strange New Respect the Old-Fashioned Way America’s Young ...

The global surge in encrypted traffic and a wide adoption of end-to-end encryption by mainstream tech companies is a transformative shift in information security worth celebrating. Billions of online ...