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Questionable and unconstitutional surveillance is nothing new at the National Security Agency, as recently declassified documents show. Decades ago, the NSA spied on US senators, prominent journalists, boxer Muhammad Ali and even the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the ...

President Obama’s panel of independent experts to review surveillance efforts of the National Security Agency is a sham, the Associated Press has concluded. The AP’s journalists discovered that the panelists are far from independent, with all of them having ties ...

The National Security Agency’s surveillance programs have poisoned the relationship between the United States and Brazil. Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff is so angry about NSA spying that she wants her country to create its own Internet that’s independent of the ...

The Obama administration went out of its way to get restrictions on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs removed in 2011, allowing it to search Americans’ communications without a warrant, according to a new report. The restrictions had been imposed ...

The National Security Agency threatened to label technology executives traitors and send them to prison if they did not collaborate with its surveillance efforts, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has told reporters. Releasing any data about the surveillance programs would have ...

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 ...

Microsoft and Google don’t want anything more to do with the National Security Agency’s surveillance of Internet communications. The two tech giants have uncharacteristically banded together to sue the Department of Justice for the right to release more of what ...

Cass Sunstein was one of President Obama’s most controversial czars. He has now been appointed into a far more influential and powerful position. Sunstein will now serve on the panel to review the NSA programs. While still earning a paycheck ...

Google might just be a bigger threat to your privacy than the surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency. Recent news articles show that the online giant, which operates the world’s most popular search engine, has little regard for ...