US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website

On 17 July, the department of justice served a website-hosting company, DreamHost, with a search warrant for every piece of Continue reading →

Intelligence Officials Can’t Say How Many Americans They Spy On

WASHINGTON ― There was at least one remarkable revelation from Wednesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that had nothing to do Continue reading →

Former NSA executive: Agency used ‘blanket’ surveillance during 2002 Olympics

Former National Security Agency senior executive and whistleblower Thomas Drake revealed himself this week as the source for a lawsuit Continue reading →

Congress allows rule permitting mass hacking by government to take effect

WASHINGTON — In a defeat for privacy advocates, Senate leaders rebuffed a last-ditch effort by a bipartisan group of senators Wednesday Continue reading →

AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal

Hemisphere is a secretive program run by AT&T that searches trillions of call records and analyzes cellular data to determine Continue reading →

Former Employees Say Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence

Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific Continue reading →

The NSA hack proves Apple was right to fight the FBI

After the unprecedented breach of hacking tools and exploits stolen from the US National Security Agency’s elite hacking unit, some Continue reading →

FCC selects Swedish firm to run sensitive national database routing phone calls

The vote by the five commissioners clears the way for Telcordia, owned by Ericcson and based in New Jersey, to Continue reading →