NSA

Merkel's approval ratings drop steeply in wake of spying scandal

Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity has dropped abruptly in the wake of an unfolding spying scanda...

May 09, 2015 08:35 AM EDT

NSA's phone spying program ruled illegal by appeals court

A U.S. spying program that systematically collects millions of Americans' phone records is illegal, ...

May 07, 2015 06:21 PM EDT

German prosecutors launch investigation of spying charges

Germany's top public prosecutor will look into accusations that the country's BND foreign intelligen...

May 03, 2015 06:51 PM EDT

U.S. lawmakers seek to end spies' mass collection of phone data

U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday to end spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' ...

Apr 29, 2015 07:12 AM EDT

Politics intrude as cybersecurity firms hunt foreign spies

The $71 billion cybersecurity industry is fragmenting along geopolitical lines as firms chase after ...

Mar 12, 2015 07:45 AM EDT

Wikipedia to file lawsuit challenging mass surveillance by NSA

Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will ...

Mar 10, 2015 09:15 AM EDT

Fugitive ex-NSA contractor Snowden seeks to come home: lawyer

A Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden said on Tuesday the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor w...

Mar 03, 2015 06:03 PM EST

Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drive...

Feb 16, 2015 06:49 PM EST

Snowden files show Canada spy agency runs global Internet watch: CBC

Canada's electronic spy agency has been intercepting and analyzing data on up to 15 million file dow...

Jan 29, 2015 04:33 AM EST

No proof so far that NSA bugged Merkel's phone: prosecutor

Germany's top public prosecutor said an investigation into suspected tapping of Chancellor Angela Me...

Dec 12, 2014 02:11 AM EST

Spying techniques exposed by Snowden not unlawful: UK watchdog

British spies did not break laws guaranteeing human rights when they used mass monitoring techniques...

Dec 06, 2014 01:29 AM EST

Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone film

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Edward Snowden in a movie directed by Oliver Stone about the fo...

Nov 12, 2014 08:43 AM EST

NSA reviewing deal between official, ex-spy agency head

The U.S. National Security Agency has launched an internal review of a senior official’s part-time...

Oct 17, 2014 05:24 PM EDT

New documents show legal basis for NSA surveillance programs

Documents released by the U.S. government show it views an executive order issued in 1981 as the bas...

Sep 30, 2014 01:10 AM EDT

NSA Head: Program Helped To Thwart Terror Attacks; Journalist Glenn Greenwald Under Fire from Lawmaker

In his first congressional testimony since disclosure of the secretive programs, the director of the...

Jun 13, 2013 12:22 PM EDT

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