Surveillance

The British government is being asked to reopen an investigation into BT, after new evidence appeared to link the company to illegal US drone strikes and the mass government …

The government's practice of monitoring attorney-client communications over prison email systems was on display in two New York cases this summer when prosecutors argued that inmates wanting to speak …

The search tool, known as ICReach, is designed to share more than 850 billion records - that is more than twice the number of stars in the Milky Way.

Scholar Henry Giroux says that America is slipping away, and being replaced with a surveillance state and culture of violence that's threatening the very core of American democracy.

Software created by the controversial UK based Gamma Group International was used to spy on computers that appear to be located in the United States.

When Google acts essentially as an arm of law enforcement, it raises some big questions about privacy and security in a world where pretty much everyone communicates on some …

The CIA's inspector general released a report confirming that three of the agency's information technology specialists and two CIA lawyers spied on the computers and communications of the Senate …

The Central Intelligence Agency has admitted its officials spied on a Senate panel probing the agency's torture and rendition program.

The Obama administration has expanded the national terrorist watchlist system by approving broad guidelines over who can be targeted.

A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.