German intelligence agencies have used a secret National Security Agency program as part of a U.S. effort to detect possible terrorist activities worldwide, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported ...

A bipartisan coalition of privacy groups is calling on Congress to end controversial surveillance programs that monitor foreign Internet traffic and collect American phone records, saying the ...

PRISM was the program that enabled the National Security Agency (NSA), with some help from the FBI, to obtain unthinkable ...

A federal judge in Detroit has ordered the U.S. government to halt the National Security Agency's Internet and telephone surveillance program. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor said the spying ...

Sen. Mark Udall's efforts to amend the Patriot Act to protect loyal Americans from National Security Agency surveillance received a boost in support after new revelations leaked by Edward Snowden.

A federal judge came down hard yesterday on the National Security Agency's collection of billions of Americans' telephone records, calling it a likely violation of the Constitution. But Judge Richard ...

This was originally posted at The Guardian. After yet another avalanche of documents showing how the NSA has spied on our communications for years, Americans should be asking, how did we get here? The ...