The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, created in 1978 in response to fears of abusive government spying, operates from a secure courtroom in the D.C. federal courthouse.

Before the Internet, when surveillance consisted largely of government-on-government espionage, agencies like the NSA would target specific communications circuits: that Soviet undersea cable ...

“The U.S. DOGE Service is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about ...

Americans who took action told pollsters they knew "a lot" about the government surveillance programs revealed in June 2013 by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

The Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 (GSRA)—introduced in the US House by representatives Zoe Lofgren and Warren Davidson, and in the US Senate by Ron Wyden and Mike Lee—is a ...

Americans became somewhat more disapproving of the government surveillance program itself in the ensuing months, even after then-President Barack Obama outlined changes to NSA data collection. The ...

Multiple covert government surveillance operations hoovering up Americans’ information without oversight have been exposed in the last year. Those not following closely may not have noticed.

Most are familiar with U.S. surveillance programs. The vast majority of Americans in this survey say they have heard about the surveillance programs to collect information about telephone calls, ...

Shocking revelations about creepy government surveillance came in waves over the summer, from the Snowden leaks to the Hemisphere Project, through which the government has paid AT&T for access to a ...

Glenn Sulmasy says Edward Snowden’s leaks of classified intelligence raises thorny issues about government surveillance.

DENVER ‒ For decades, the government has been able to watch where you drive and where you walk. It can figure out where you shop, what you buy and with whom you spend time. It knows how much ...

The Kenyan government is using technology to improve governance, service delivery and national security. The progress, while ...