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 →

1984 Mock Trial: A humorous, yet critical look at Police State tactics in the U.S.

By Robert A. Vella Last month, two justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, three D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judges, Continue reading →

FBI wants access to Internet browser history without a warrant in terrorism and spy cases

The Obama administration is seeking to amend surveillance law to give the FBI explicit authority to access a person’s Internet Continue reading →

The Supreme Court Expands FBI Hacking Powers

The U.S. Supreme Court approved a new rule Thursday allowing federal judges to issue warrants that target computers outside their Continue reading →