Spying

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

• By Nathan Collins

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

• By Wes Judd

The strange case of higher education espionage.

• By Kate Wheeling

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

• By Sebastian Rotella

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

• By Gregory Ferenstein

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.

• By Justin Elliott

Not according to a pair of quantum physicists.

• By Ryan Jacobs

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

• By Julia Angwin & Jeff Larson

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

• By Marc Herman

When federal agents investigated a story Raymond Bonner wrote, they violated Department of Justice rules and his privacy in many of the ways Edward Snowden has suggested could happen.

• By Raymond Bonner

Armed with binoculars and a standard camera, a different sort of birdwatcher keeps tabs on the world's spy satellites.

• By Jeff Shear