National Security Agency

Encryption can protect personal data from government intrusion, which means the government wants the key to break it.

Democrats and Republicans banded together to defeat an amendment that would have created new warrant requirements for looking at communications by Americans caught up in a surveillance database.

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

A 15-month ongoing investigation has found that the Kremlin is the prime suspect in the breach plaguing the NSA.

A cyber attack contained code cybersecurity experts say was stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency.

A memo drawn up by a National Security Agency deputy reportedly records Trump pressuring NSA Director Mike Rogers to influence the Russia investigation.

Leaked audio from Australian political dinner shows the country's top politician poking fun at the U.S. president

The whistleblower says the agency failed to warn Microsoft about the vulnerability until too late.

The halt is among the most substantial changes to U.S. surveillance policy in years and comes as digital privacy remains a contentious issue across the globe following the 2013 disclosures of broad NSA spying activity.

Brazil prepared to launch its first satellite into space to provide better internet access across the country—and shield it from the NSA.

Deputy Director Richard Ledgett says the allegations exhibit 'a complete lack of understanding of how the relationship works between the intel community agencies.'

Half-a-dozen cybersecurity executives told Reuters they had witnessed a marked increase in the number of U.S. intelligence officers and government contractors seeking employment in the private sector since Trump took office on Jan. 20.

Almost all militant groups have taken Snowden's advice on how to evade government surveillance.

A three-year investigation found that key parts of Snowden's story do not check out.

Congressmen demand data as they debate the merits of NSA's Section 702 authority, intended for foreigners.

Twitter's Jack Dorsey interviewed the former NSA employee about Donald Trump, fake news and the prospect of a pardon.

James Clapper and Ash Carter have recommended dismissing Rogers, who is being considered by Trump for the director of national intelligence post.

Oliver Stone's Edward Snowden biopic aims to humanize the infamous NSA leaker—and show the vast reach of the programs he and others exposed.

The activists are hoping to codify digital rights across the globe.

Political cartoonist Ted Rall illustrates the NSA leaker's story.

The practice of bulk telephone metadata collection was revealed by Edward Snowden.

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.

After 14 years of eavesdropping on innocent Americans, zero terrorists plots against America have been uncovered.

Final Senate passage of the Patriot Act was delayed until at least Tuesday by objections from Senator Rand Paul.

The bill would end spy agencies' bulk collections, setting up a potential showdown with the Senate over the program that expires on June 1.

The federal appeals court is urging lawmakers to make their wishes clear—and hint that current spying breaches the Fourth Amendment.

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.

A federal appeals court on Thursday said a National Security Agency program that collected the records of millions of Americans' phone calls was not authorized by Congress.