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One of the NSA's most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone’s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse.

An award-winning company founded by former Google engineers is suing the search engine giant over claims it is violating privacy rights on a “massive scale.”

FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates announced that they would “work with” companies who provide end-to-end encryption, which makes it impossible to read intercepted digital messages.

TSA is untroubled by the hacking of its luggage locks, saying they are “peace of mind” devices for travelers, “not part of TSA’s aviation security regime.”

Are you the Socrates of the National Security Agency? That was the question the NSA asked its workforce in a memo soliciting applications for an in-house ethicist who would write a philosophically minded column about signals intelligence.

When the Pentagon decided in 2009 to cut funding for Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor fighter jet, the Heritage Foundation came to the defense of its donor.

We are characters in narratives constructed by algorithms. Joshua Cohen's new novel, <em>Book of Numbers</em>, explores the ambiguity of surveillance.

The Center for American Progress censored its own writers to placate anger from AIPAC and embraced some shockingly extreme policies of militarism.

Journalist Andre Meister tells <em>The Intercept</em> the investigation only encourages him to continue — and perhaps accelerate — his work.