A federal appeals court has brought a case against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) phone surveillance program back from the dead. Back in 2013, U.S. District Judge William Pauley dismissed the ...

One of the most sweeping surveillance statutes ever enacted by Congress is set to expire at the end of this year — creating an important opportunity to rein in America’s sprawling surveillance state.

A panel appointed by President Barack Obama has recommended significant changes to controversial surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency (NSA) that were disclosed by Edward Snowden.

Two days after President Obama signed into law a plan that limited the access of the National Security Agency to bulk phone records, a new report from the New York Times raised questions about NSA ...

There's a noteworthy development in an otherwise parochial legal case out of Chicago. Among the evidence against two men charged with illegally lobbying government officials on behalf of Zimbabwe is ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) Republicans clashed over the future of government surveillance programs on Monday, highlighting a deep divide among the GOP's 2016 presidential class over whether the National ...

In an overwhelming vote, the House moved the U.S. closer to ending the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records Thursday, the most significant demonstration to date of ...

Originally posted at The Daily Beast. Next month, President-elect Trump will be handed the keys to the NSA’s vast spying apparatus. As a candidate, he supported mass surveillance of Americans’ phone ...

WASHINGTON The House on Thursday passed legislation to end the National Security Agency s bulk collection of American phone records, the first legislative response to the disclosures by former NSA ...

George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is the most famous fictional work about omnipresent government surveillance and its myriad risks. Yet, an often-overlooked movie from 1992 provides even more ...