U.S. lawmakers have urged the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to withdraw a $190 million border security contract awarded to a company which checks government employees' backgrounds and suffered a cyber attack disclosed last month.
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday grilled an Obama administration lawyer about the legality of the continuing collection of millions of Americans' phone records, adding fuel to a debate that has raged since the spy program was revealed more than a year ago.
According to Voice of American, the White House has stated that it will be working with Germany to resolve concerns on whether one of its intelligence employees indeed had spied for Washington. Falling short of confirming whether the allegations were true, White House spokesman Josh Earnest insisted that the government values its relationship with Berlin.
Internet companies believed that the voting of HR3361, or the bill that would curb data collection programs of the National Security Agency, failed to address concerns about company disclosure on government cooperation, Bloomberg reported.
According to industry pundits, US' intentions on filing a lawsuit against five Chinese military men for economic espionage allows the country to call out against digital theft for economic purposes, Bloomberg reported.
A proposal made public by the US Justice Department revealed that the law enforcement agency has intentions of easing a law that would require them to conduct hacking on multiple computers without any geographical or other restrictions, Bloomberg reported.
US Court of Appeals had refused to overturn a district court ruling against secure mail service provider Lavabit as it had deemed that the new arguments presented by Ladar Levison's company were not raised in the original case, ZDNet said.
The Guardian and The Washington Post are contenders for a Pulitzer Prize, journalism's highest honor, which will be awarded on Monday for their revelations of the massive surveillance program conducted by the US government thanks to former government contractor Edward Snowden's leak, the Salt Lake Tribune said.
In an interview with Vanity Fair. former government contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden insisted that he did file formal complaints with his ex-employer about the agency's surveillance programs, directly contradicting an earlier statement by NSA deputy director Rick Ledgett.
The latest leaks of government whistleblower Edward Snowden published on the Washington Post detailed National Security Agency programs MYSTIC and RETRO were used to monitor an entire telephone network-worth of phone calls over a 30-day period of at least five countries.
Edward Snowden told an audience at the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) that although his data leaks had caused change expected to happen at the National Security Agency, there is still much to be done about the US government's role in privacy and data protection of intellectual property, Reuters said.
The South by Southwest Interactive will be hosting talks about privacy issues in social media, and will feature former government contractor Edward Snowden and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as among the speakers.
According to a Bloomberg report, a UK court stood by with the arrest by authorities of David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald did the story on Edward Snowden's claims of e-mail surveillance done by the US government to civilians.
U.S District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan ruled that the National Security Agency's program, which collects the records of million of Americans' phone calls, is a lawful procedure
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon declared Monday that the "government's once-secret collection of domestic phone records is unconstitutional, setting up likely appeals and further challenges to the data mining, revealed by classified leaker Edward Snowden. Leon said the NSA's collection of metadata (or "phone records of the time and numbers called without any disclosure of content") violated privacy records
British authorities said that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was carrying 58,000 documents, nearly at least three times as many highly sensitive documents as previously said by media outlets.
In an effort to extradite Edward Snowden back to the United States, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder assured Russia that the U.S. would try him in a civilian court, and would not seek the death penalty against him. Russian President's Vladimir Putin 's spokesman again ruled out hopes for Holder to get Snowden extradited.
Early reports on Wednesday indicated that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden obtained permission to leave the transit area of a Moscow Airport, after authorities issued documents allowing him to cross the border into Russia, but his attorney Anatoly Kucherena said that he has not received all of the proper documents that would allow him to leave a Moscow airport's transit area, CNN reported. Kucherena, who helped Snowden file his bid for temporary asylum in the country on July 16, hand delivered documentation that allowed him to clear immigration at the airport.
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden submitted a request for temporary asylum in Russia on Tuesday, his lawyer said, claiming he faces persecution from the U.S. government and could face torture or death.
Among the three nations that have offered National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden political asylum, the Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story, said that Venezuela is the "obvious choice," but he added that figuring out how to get Snowden from Moscow into Caracas could still take weeks.
