NSA

The National Security Agency has your data. Is there a way to use it that won't further violate your privacy?

Officials are again pointing to the need for mass surveillance to take down terrorists. Here’s what we know about how well it works.

A new Chapman University survey reveals cyber-terrorism and threats to privacy are high on the list.

The latest Pew poll shows America has earned some less-than-favorable marks around the globe.

The Obama administration has stepped up the National Security Agency's surveillance program on U.S. soil to search for signs of hacking.

The Patriot Act is gone, sort of.

A round-up of news and research on all things patriots.

After Edward Snowden, the government said its controversial surveillance programs had stopped a terrorist—David Coleman Headley. The claim is largely untrue.

The British government's demand that physical computers be destroyed is both nonsensical and ruthless—and that’s what makes it so disturbing.

The latest Pew survey shows that a majority of people actually approve of mass surveillance.

Visualize cool beers on warm summer nights.

If you downloaded the privacy software Tor in 2011, you may have been flagged to be spied on.

A measure adopted by the House to bar the National Security Agency from meddling with encryption standards was inserted into a defense appropriations bill and approved on a voice vote.

While it's turned into a disparaging term, being a "truther" once meant you were the opposite of a liar.

An amendment proposed by the House would remove the requirement that the National Institute of Standards and Technology consult with the NSA on encryption standards.

Here are some techniques that anybody can use to protect their privacy online.

One lesson of the Heartbleed bug is that our government is paying to undermine Internet security, not to fix it.

Our criticism of the U.S. government's covert or "discreet" funding of communication channels like ZunZuneo or Radio Free Europe presumes that they try to seed something non-native.

All the plans purport to end the bulk phone records collection program, but there are big differences.

Not according to a pair of quantum physicists.

Rereading the late senator in a post-Edward Snowden and Julian Assange era.

Answers to some of your questions about how the NSA and its British counterpart have been scouring smartphone apps.

Australia's security service tapped some phones in Indonesia. It hasn't ended well.

The agency, President Obama, and members of Congress have all said NSA spying programs have thwarted more than 50 terrorist plots. But there’s no evidence the claim is true.