The US National Security Agency conducted a secret pilot project in 2010 and 2011 to test the collection of bulk data about the location of Americans' cellphones, but the agency never moved ahead...
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- Oct 4, 2013
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US National Security Agency
America's National Security Agency (NSA) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defence responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence. The NSA is a key component of the US Intelligence community, which is headed by the Director of National Intelligence. By law, the NSA's intelligence gathering is limited to foreign communications although there have been some incidents involving domestic collection, including the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy.
4 Oct 2013
Updated 5:14AM
4 Oct 2013
One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an FBI agent's business card on his Dallas doorstep. So began a four-month tangle with law enforcement officials that would end with Levison...
Updated 5:39AM
30 Sep 2013
Jeremy Scahill, a contributor to The Nation magazine and best-selling author of Dirty Wars, will be working with Glenn Greenwald, the Rio-based journalist who has written stories about US...
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29 Sep 2013
At least a dozen US National Security Agency employees have been caught using secret government surveillance tools to spy on the e-mails or phone calls of their current or former spouses and...
5:19AM
28 Sep 2013
US authorities secretly tapped the overseas phone calls of prominent critics of the Vietnam war, including Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and two actively serving US senators, newly declassified...
3:27AM
28 Sep 2013
The top US intelligence official has sidestepped questions from a senator about whether the National Security Agency has used Americans' mobile phone signals to collect information on their...
3:28AM
For the first time since Barack Obama took office, a year of his presidency is likely to end without him toasting an ally at a glitzy White House state dinner. One had been scheduled for October...
4:53AM
Revelations about the US government’s secret surveillance programmes has had a big impact on “trust metrics” of internet companies like Facebook, the social network chief Mark Zuckerberg said on...
12:36PM
Belgium has denounced the "substantial and invasive" hacking of its biggest telecommunications company, saying a foreign state may have been responsible, as media pointed the finger at the US...
5:02AM
Rousseff, who was infuriated by the spying reports, decided to cancel despite a 20-minute telephone call from US President Barack Obama on Monday night in a last-minute attempt to salvage the trip...
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Judge Dennis Saylor from the United States' Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court directed the government to review for possible public release the body's classified opinions on the National...
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Vienna is a fabled city for spying - and now its cloak-and-dagger legend has a 21st century twist. A stately villa in a leafy district of the Austrian capital is at the centre of a row over...
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