A question about Donald Trump potentially wielding power over eavesdropping capabilities evoked nervous laughter and a careful answer from the agency’s recently installed director of privacy and civil liberties.
Members of the House oversight panel for intelligence are asking for the funds to get top-secret clearances for personal staffers.
The DOJ on Monday backed down from its claim that Apple had the “exclusive technical means” to unlock an iPhone used by the San Bernardino killer.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and David Simon, creator of the hit show about crime in Baltimore, debate the value of communications surveillance.
Nearly three years into the post-Snowden era, the public is still missing some crucial, basic facts about how the U.S. government conducts surveillance abroad and how many Americans are caught in its nets.
Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, said there's a way to "protect our civil liberties, defend our digital information and chase bad guys all at the same time."
The host of "Last Week Tonight" — who last April famously boiled down the argument about NSA surveillance to its core issue, dick pics — takes on the battle over encryption.
Obama’s first extended disquisition on the contentious issue of encryption suggests he’s only been listening to one side.
Prosecutors demanding that Apple write software to defeat its own security filed a legal brief full of venom, smears, and innuendo.
In high schools around the country, teams of students are engaging in a more intense, thoughtful debate about government spying than Congress has ever had.
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