Surveillance Reform Bill Clears House Only To Face Obstacles In Senate

The House of Representatives today passed the USA FREEDOM Act on a 338-88 vote. Despite receiving overwhelming support in the lower cham...

US Gov Declassifies 3 FISA Court Orders Commanding The Collection Of Telephone Metadata

Today on the IC On The Record Tumblr , the United States government published three declassified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ...

Snowden Document Exposes Extensive List of British Spying Tools

The Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) — Britain’s National Security Agency (NSA) equivalent — commands a wide-ranging set of to...

Senate May Pass NSA Reform Bill Before Upcoming Recess

After some pessimism that a deal couldn’t be reached, there is indication in Washington that the Senate may be able to pass its version o...

Vysk QS1 Is An Otterbox For The Privacy Freak

Last weekend, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden   called on developers to design products that protect users’ privacy and Constitutional ri...

Senate Expected To Unveil Broad NSA Reform Bill Tomorrow

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy is expected to introduce a version of the USA FREEDOM Act (UFA) tomorrow that is far stronger than what the e...

Tech Companies Throw Their Support Behind Strengthened NSA Reform Bill

As expected, Sen. Patrick Leahy introduced the USA FREEDOM Act to the upper chamber of Congress on Tuesday. The bill comes on the heels of...

Strengthened Senate NSA Reform Measure Is ‘A Good First Step’

Earlier this week, Sen. Patrick Leahy introduced a strengthened version of the USA FREEDOM Act  to praise from tech companies, privacy grou...

Dear America, Would You Please Give Edward Snowden His Medal Of Freedom Already?

“A government task force is preparing legislation that would pressure companies such as Face­book and Google to enable law enforcement o...

Notes From Crazytown, Day One: The Business Of Fear

Can your computer be hacked? Yep. Can your phone be hacked? Yep. Have your passwords been harvested? Very possibly. (The NYT just reported...

Snowden Gets Three More Years’ Leave To Remain In Russia

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been given permission to remain in Russia for three more years. The decision extends the temporary ...

Notes From Crazytown, Day Three: Black Hat Breakdown

So far this week, at Black Hat , I have learned to deeply mistrust: passwords, chip-and-PIN cards, all USB devices, HTTPS connections, mo...

NSA Internet Metadata Program Collected More Than Was Allowed, Shared Data Too Broadly

A now-defunct National Security Agency (NSA) bulk collection program that collected information about online communications exceeded its ...

Microsoft Urges Reform Of U.S. Government’s Surveillance Practices

In a set of comments regarding “big data,” submitted in response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NT...

Snowden Reveals NSA Intervention In Syria, Hacking Program Compelled Him To Leak Documents

Many in the media have conjectured that supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were responsible for a series of Internet outages ...

Tor Exec Claims NSA Agents Supply It With Vulnerability Information

The Tor Project , an effort to allow users to browse the Internet anonymously, thinks that it is receiving tips from spies focused on find...

NSA Created Search Engine Tool To Share Communication Records With Government Agencies

A set of classified documents published by The Intercept on Monday shows how the  National Security Agency (NSA) makes more than 850 bil...

Where You Are Is Who You Are Even If It Is China

Editor’s note:   Paul Rosenzweig is a senior adviser to The Chertoff Group ,  a global security advisory firm that advises clients on infor...

Dropbox Calls For Support Of The Senate’s NSA Reform Bill

This morning, Dropbox released new information detailing government requests for its user data, and information about certain user account...

Microsoft Discloses New Data On Government Requests For User Information

Microsoft today disclosed data concerning global government request for its users’ data , and information about their accounts in the fir...