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Internet giants Google and Yahoo are taking serious steps to protect users’ data from NSA and other surveillance programs, and some media reports indicate that Facebook and Microsoft are also increasing their security. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote an open ...

The National Security Agency has created a massive database of contact lists from email and instant messaging accounts, including millions of contact lists from Americans. That means the NSA easily could have your email address book and list of friends ...

A federal court in Texas has effectively denied an imprisoned reporter and his attorneys’ right to freedom of speech with a so-called gag order — preventing him from discussing US surveillance efforts. The order is only the latest action that ...

The National Security Agency and its ally, the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), have used advanced hacking techniques to crack most encryption software — meaning the two agencies can read encrypted messages on the Internet, even email, banking and medical ...

Despite vast amounts of evidence to the contrary, President Obama declared on “The Tonight Show” in front of all of America that “we don’t have a domestic spying program.” This president must think us fools. A secret unit of the ...

WASHINGTON – If you don’t want your home searched by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, don’t conduct an Internet search for “pressure cookers” and “backpacks.” That may be oversimplifying it, but a blog post Thursday by a national ...

For the first time since 9/11, Americans are more concerned about the government invading their privacy than they are about terrorism. That’s according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center, which conducted the survey in light of revelations ...

If you drive in the United States or Canada, state, provincial, and local enforcement agencies are tracking your movements whether you break the law or not. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has discovered that law enforcement agencies are using ...

More NSA snooping information was released recently, only to be yanked from publication almost immediately after an editor hit the “publish” button. The Guardian-owned Observer posted a new NSA spying scandal story on June 30, but the information disappeared quickly—however, ...

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden may have disappeared from his upscale hotel in China, but the fallout continues from his shocking data mining allegations. Snowden maintains he worked as a security guard for a NSA “cover facility” at the University of ...