Mass Surveillance

The pursuit of the most advanced AI—human-like artificial general intelligence—has prompted concerns among experts about potential dangers if it runs amok.

On Tuesday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled that British intelligence-gathering practices violated human rights.

The mobile application is reportedly being fed data collected by China's vast monitoring apparatus, which is known to retain large amounts of personal information on citizens.

China has been accused of implanting secret microchips into computers to spy on the world's top tech firms and even the U.S. government.

Telecom companies will now have to store all user communications for six months.

The system is set up to report those who are trying to "overthrow the socialist system."

The president speculated about a surveillance law being used on his campaign before realizing his administration supports it.

A BBC journalist invited to test the government's CCTV network was located in just seven minutes.

A human rights group says China is collecting data through medical checkups in Xinjiang, a move that further adds to controls in the Muslim-majority region.

The CIA's methods have been compromised, but ordinary Americans probably need not worry.

The dangers of surveillance might seem hypothetical—but history shows us we have a lot to fear.

"Unchecked powers are trampling freedoms that have long been taken for granted," report says.

Open Rights Group director Jim Killock says 'Snooper's Charter' is unprecedented.

The bulk scan of Yahoo emails was ordered by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

The amendment would have given the FBI the ability to to check citizens' browsing history without a court order. 

Trump first called for surveillance of mosques in November, as well as a database of Syrian refugees entering the U.S.

Critics fear the bill does not do enough to safeguard users.

A generational gap in the memories of 9/11 and partisan politics now seems to drive the civil liberties and security debate.

The Patriot Act is gone, but the legacy of Snowden's exposure of the secret NSA screening remains mixed.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden pens NYT op-ed on second anniversary of his first revelation.

Jeb Bush came out in favor of the Patriot Act in an op-ed Monday.

The Senate voted 54-45, failing to meet the threshold needed to advance a bill that would have extended provisions of the "USA Patriot Act."

Germany's BND intelligence agency sends mammoth amounts of phone and text data to the NSA each month.

After an appeals court ruling, reform suddenly appears inevitable.

Edward Snowden urged Americans not to change their Internet habits because of the NSA.

The proposed law allows spying on anyone connected to terrorist activity.

Libertarian surfer dude Ross Ulbricht built his cyber drug cartel, Silk Road, on a belief in free markets and Internet privacy. Now he's in prison for a very long time.

A UK-based privacy group has launched a website to submit requests to a British tribunal en masse.

Congress must reform the Patriot Act if Americans are to regain their privacy rights.

Next month the Supreme Court will decide whether front desk snooping is legal.