To ease your fears, it created a handy list of bullet points demonstrating that, under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), it can’t use the PRISM surveillance program to ...

Looks like surveillance defenders just lost their main talking point in defense of the NSA's (formerly) secret phone and data tracking programs: Najibullah Zazi, the would-be New York City subway ...

Few stories have broken as quickly or as confusingly as this week's multiple revelations about US government spying. Initial, widely quoted, reports from the Guardian and from the Washington Post ...

If you're concerned about PRISM, the National Security Agency's program that can spy on U.S. citizens through services like Google and Facebook, just keep in mind the government is simply taking ...

An update and slight correction, 7:59 p.m.: A spokesperson forwarded us this message from Google's chief legal counsel David Drummond: "We cannot say this more clearly -- the government does not have ...

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In June 2013, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents about a program called PRISM, claiming it collected users’ data right from the servers of American tech ...

Most of the discussion of the NSA's Prism program has focused on the domestic fallout, with some spillover into the question of what Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple did (or didn't) do to ...

Dystopia used to seem sexier. In George Orwell's 1984, Big Brother used non-stop wars and ever-present surveillance to keep the population in check. A stray glance or thoughtcrime might send you to ...

Everyone from Mark Zuckerberg down to the average Facebook user has expressed surprised outrage at the existence of PRISM, a top-secret government program that the National Security Agency uses to ...

Apple, Google and more deny providing direct access surveillance program. June 7, 2013 — -- The National Security Agency and the FBI have been tapping into the servers of nine technology ...