The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court announced today that it has approved President Obama's request to change to the NSA's section 215 metadata collection program. Obama did not choose to end ...

The Office National Intelligence released a trove of newly declassified documents Tuesday, detailing the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance operations. As Matthew Keys reported on ...

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” the adage goes. But for the sunset of Patriot Act authorities later this year—including Section 215, a controversial provision that allows the National Security ...

The National Security Agency has “quietly shut down” the mass surveillance program it implemented after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to analyze metadata ...

On May 7, in ACLU v. Clapper, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that the controversial National Security Agency (NSA) telephone metadata collection program—involving the court-ordered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Security Agency program that swept up details on billions of Americans' phone calls was illegal and possibly ...

The ruling is a significant development in the executive, legislative and judicial struggle to strike the right balance between protecting privacy and protecting national security. In yet another ...

Among the 46 recommendations drafted by President Obama's surveillance review panel is one that would overhaul the phone metadata collection at the heart of this week's court ruling against the NSA.

Rick Sarre receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Criminology Research Council. He is a member of the Labor party. The Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity, Angus ...

The U.S. National Security Agency scooped up unauthorized call and text message data in October, representing the second such incident known to the public. The violation was caught by the American ...