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The British government will be able to track the phone calls and Internet use of every citizen and hack into almost any computer thanks to a new law that critics have dubbed the “Snooper’s Charter.” “The UK has just legalized the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy,” U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted. ...

Baltimore’s citizens were under high-tech aerial surveillance by their police for six months, and no one outside of law enforcement – not even the mayor – knew it. Incredibly, police were able to conduct the surveillance without the knowledge or ...

A 3-year-old child in London has been labeled a “potential terrorist” and placed under social workers’ care and police surveillance because of his or her family’s religious beliefs. The unidentified child was one of 1,069 Londoners placed in an “anti-extremism ...

The FBI is operating a “small air force” of mysterious small planes that fly low to the ground, take detailed surveillance video, and perform secret cell phone surveillance – and hiding it all by pretending the planes are owned by ...

It is not just federal agencies that may be violating your constitutional rights. Some local police and sheriff’s departments have surveillance operations as sophisticated as those at the NSA. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is deploying an array of ...

The FBI apparently has the ability to take over your computer’s webcam and your smartphone’s camera and use them to spy on you, according to recent reports. To make matters worse, you probably wouldn’t realize that you are under surveillance ...

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 Obama administration didn’t want the US Supreme Court to rule on the legality of the federal government’s collection of large numbers of telephone records, and it got its ways Monday when the Supreme Court declined to hear a case ...

With the White House claiming President Obama did not know the United States was listening to the phone conversations of leaders of friendly nations, officials within the National Security Agency are pushing back, saying Obama’s own administration approved of the ...

On this week’s episode of Off The Grid Radio, guest host Brian Brawdy talks to New American reporter Joe Wolverton II, who says the NSA’s spying is “just the tip of the iceberg” of the federal government’s surveillance efforts. Of ...