Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency, ignited a global controversy in 2013 after leaking classified documents about secret surveillance programs. The files revealed ...

Mass surveillance and America's “data broker loophole” is driving the ongoing fight between the Pentagon and Anthropic.

The UK’s tax and customs authority has been quietly amassing an arsenal of surveillance technology, signing contracts with ...

Tucker Carlson posted this video on Sunday alleging that the CIA has been monitoring his communications: TUCKER CARLSON: So, the other day I found out that the CIA is preparing some kind of criminal ...

Data sovereignty refers to the principle that all data is subject to the laws and regulations of the nation state or ...

If one traces the genealogy of high-profile socio-political scandals starting from the last three decades of the last century ...

In "Privacy's Defender," Electronic Frontier Foundation leader Cindy Cohn recounts legal fights that helped shape modern internet privacy protections.

Retired Special Agent Bassem Youssef, who ran the FBI's Communications Analysis Unit from late 2004 until late 2014, witnessed agents hired under Jim Comey's watch, for political leanings and warned ...

During the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg — a peace activist from Michigan who had worked as an analyst in the U.S. Department of Defense — became so disillusioned with the quagmire that he leaked a ...

A German lawmaker who met US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden said Friday the fugitive had told him he would be ready to testify to the US Congress to shed light on "possibly se ...

In my last column, I argued that the server farm is the new oil refinery, a kinetic target requiring concrete walls, ...

Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on the history of the NSA and mass surveillance in America, and why Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon should worry us.