Poll Shows Complexity of Debate on Trade-Offs in Government Spying Programs
Recent spying disclosures have opened the trade-offs between civil liberties and security to the broadest and best-informed public debate in many years.
View ArticleReport Indicates More Extensive Cooperation by Microsoft on Surveillance
The Guardian reports the company provided the National Security Agency with up-to-date access to its customer data whenever it changed its encryption and related technology.
View ArticleSnowden Renews Plea for Moscow to Grant Asylum
After weeks of silence, the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden appealed for help in gaining asylum in Russia as he continued to seek passage to Latin America.
View ArticleN.S.A. Leaks Revive Push in Russia to Control Net
Even before Edward J. Snowden arrived in a Moscow airport, Russia had been pressing for greater access to social networking and e-mail data.
View ArticleBipartisan Backlash Grows Against Domestic Surveillance
Lawmakers from both parties called for the collection of the private data of millions of Americans to be scaled back.
View ArticleBritish Agency Is Cleared of Illegal Data Gathering
The Government Communications Headquarters had been accused of accessing information from an American surveillance program.
View ArticleNational Briefing | Washington: Surveillance Court Renews Order for Phone...
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved a new order for collection of bulk data on phone calls in the United States.
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N.S.A. Director Lobbies House on Eve of Critical Vote
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the National Security Agency director, met with Democrats and Republicans to lobby against a bill that would end the financing for the agency’s phone data collection program.
View ArticleLAWMAKERS’ BID TO REIN IN N.S.A. NARROWLY FAILS
The 217-205 vote was far closer than expected and displayed the shifting allegiances and fierce lobbying on both sides of the issue.
View ArticleMomentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance
The movement to significantly rein in surveillance by the National Security Agency began on the political fringes but has built up support from Republican and Democratic leaders.
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