The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court announced today that it has approved President Obama's request to change to the NSA's section 215 metadata collection program. Obama did not choose to end ...

The Office National Intelligence released a trove of newly declassified documents Tuesday, detailing the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance operations. As Matthew Keys reported on ...

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” the adage goes. But for the sunset of Patriot Act authorities later this year—including Section 215, a controversial provision that allows the National Security ...

The National Security Agency has “quietly shut down” the mass surveillance program it implemented after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to analyze metadata ...

A post-9/11 program that enabled the mass collection of telephone, cellular, and text metadata by the US National Security Agency (NSA) likely violated the constitution, a three-judge panel of the US ...

On May 7, in ACLU v. Clapper, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that the controversial National Security Agency (NSA) telephone metadata collection program—involving the court-ordered ...

That, in three syllables, has been the go-to argument of the last two presidential administrations to justify assaulting civil liberties in the name of rooting out terrorists. It’s a dubious line of ...

Among the 46 recommendations drafted by President Obama's surveillance review panel is one that would overhaul the phone metadata collection at the heart of this week's court ruling against the NSA.

The ruling is a significant development in the executive, legislative and judicial struggle to strike the right balance between protecting privacy and protecting national security. In yet another ...

The U.S. National Security Agency has allegedly left its metadata collection system — first exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013 — unused for months, and it could vanish completely in the near future.

The U.S. National Security Agency scooped up unauthorized call and text message data in October, representing the second such incident known to the public. The violation was caught by the American ...

Rick Sarre receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Criminology Research Council. He is a member of the Labor party. The Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity, Angus ...