Edward Snowden

Government’s Legal Advisors Accused: Full Frontal Attack on Whistleblowers

The Government has been accused in launching a full frontal attack on whistleblowers over proposals ...

Feb 13, 2017 04:39 PM EST

National Security Agency now authorized to gather telephone records under new electronic spying law

The National Security Agency can now gather telephone records as ordered by the US Foreign Intellige...

Apr 20, 2016 05:21 AM EDT

Judge says UK terrorism law contradicts human rights legislation

British appeal court rules that the UK's Terrorism Act 2000 contradicts European human rights legisl...

Jan 20, 2016 01:42 AM EST

NSA to end bulk call data collection by end November: memo

The U.S. National Security Agency is ready to end later this month collecting Americans' domestic ca...

Nov 10, 2015 01:53 AM EST

Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) told a U.S. judge that accessing data stored on a locked iPhone would be "impossi...

Oct 20, 2015 08:21 PM EDT

Europe-U.S. data transfer deal used by thousands of firms is ruled invalid

The EU's highest court struck down a deal that allows thousands of companies to easily transfer pers...

Oct 06, 2015 05:49 PM EDT

Justice Department tightens cellphone tracking rules

U.S. prosecutors and some federal law enforcement agencies will need to obtain a search warrant to u...

Sep 04, 2015 02:29 AM EDT

U.S. court hands win to NSA over metadata collection

A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a judge's ruling that would have blocked the National Secur...

Aug 30, 2015 06:50 PM EDT

U.S. spy agency tapped German chancellery for decades: WikiLeaks

The U.S. National Security Agency tapped phone calls involving German Chancellor Angela Merkel and h...

Jul 08, 2015 06:35 PM EDT

NSA wiretapped two French finance ministers: Wikileaks

The U.S. National Security Agency wiretapped the communications of two successive French finance min...

Jun 29, 2015 06:50 PM EDT

NSA spied on French presidents: WikiLeaks

The United States National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkoz...

Jun 23, 2015 06:43 PM EDT

Britain pulls out spies as Russia, China crack Snowden files: report

Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in "hostile countries" after Russia and China cra...

Jun 14, 2015 08:34 AM EDT

Fate of U.S. domestic surveillance program uncertain after Senate vote

The U.S. Senate blocked a measure to extend spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' telephone re...

May 23, 2015 06:47 PM EDT

House votes to end spy agencies' bulk collection of phone data

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would end spy agencies' bulk col...

May 14, 2015 09:23 AM EDT

Top German spy says no evidence of industrial espionage by the U.S.

Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) has no evidence that the United States carried out indu...

May 13, 2015 11:30 AM EDT

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