Phone metadata would remain with the phone providers rather than in vast government data centers. President Obama this week outlined a plan that would stop the government's bulk collection of ...

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 ...

Though NSA supporters say the program is an effective tool against terrorism and has prevented attacks in the past, a new study by a nonpartisan think tank found that its contribution has been minimal ...

In 1999, according to an N.S.A. Inspector General report leaked by Edward Snowden, lawyers at the Clinton Justice Department ruled that searching telephone metadata amounted to unauthorized ...

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.

In the first court ruling related to the National Security Agency's phonecall metadata collection program—one part of the widespread government surveillance efforts detailed in documents leaked by ...

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 ...

One of the most disingenuous arguments in the aftermath of the NSA spying revelations is that the American people shouldn't be concerned about the government hoovering up its sensitive information ...

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 ...