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Private companies like Google now have the legal right to use the kind of spy satellite technology once reserved for agencies like the NSA. Our homes have been on Google for years, but the detail was limited to objects no ...

Are you engaging in “suspicious activity”? You might be, according to the federal government – especially if you take pictures in public. That’s the issue under consideration in Gill v. Department of Justice, a lawsuit filed by the American Civil ...

Legislators in eight states have introduced laws designed to literally pull the plug from the National Security Agency by choking off the resources the organization needs to organize within a state’s borders. The bills are part of an effort to ...

Your telephone and Internet traffic are not the only communications subject to warrantless surveillance. The US Postal Service (USPS) is helping intelligence, law enforcement and security agencies monitor the mail of tens of thousands of people without warrants, The New ...

Even seemingly good passwords provide little or no protection against hackers, experts hired by the Pentagon discovered. When a company called KoreLogic was hired to evaluate password security by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, a Pentagon agency, ...

Cell tower dumps are becoming a popular tool for law enforcement, with both federal and local agencies using this controversial method to gain intelligence in high profile criminal cases. Once a judge issues a subpoena, mobile providers simply turn over ...

The FBI is asking a regulatory body to expand its legal authority so it can take over almost any computer in the United States or the world, even secretly turning webcams on, all with far fewer constraints. The request is ...

Smart meters may be linked to a series of house fires and one death in two Nevada communities, and the fire chiefs of the towns have asked the state Public Utilities Commission to launch an investigation, which it is doing. ...

Police around the country are wanting to turn home and business private security cameras into surveillance devices to monitor activity on streets and other public places. New technology can give cops instant access to video from homes and businesses. The ...

Some state driver’s licenses are no longer valid ID documents in many government buildings, as federal agencies and departments begin implementing a law critics say is a de facto national ID. Susan Podziba found that out the hard way when ...