Originally posted at The Daily Beast. Next month, President-elect Trump will be handed the keys to the NSA’s vast spying apparatus. As a candidate, he supported mass surveillance of Americans’ phone ...

Mark Klein, the former AT&T employee who helped expose the fact that the National Security Agency was spying on vast amounts of internet traffic in the U.S. during the mid-2000s, died in Oakland, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan privacy board on Wednesday unanimously adopted its report that endorses some of the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance programs. The programs provoked ...

Internet security experts are rallying for a campaign to rewrite Web security after disclosures that the U.S. National Security Agency is able to break the encryptions protecting millions of sites, ...

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said Thursday the National Security Agency’s programs to monitor Internet use and gather phone data may violate the Patriot Act, and he urged lengthy hearings into the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Endorsement of the NSA's Internet surveillance programs by a bipartisan privacy board deeply disappointed civil liberties activists Wednesday while providing a measure of vindication ...