Spying

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

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

The strange case of higher education espionage.

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

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

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.

Not according to a pair of quantum physicists.

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.

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.

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