Government Surveillance News

When the federal government wants to monitor its citizens, it doesn't always need to build its own tools. Increasingly, it has found a more efficient path: pressuring the pri...

Behind Closed Doors: A Senator’s Relentless Crusade to Expose the CIA’s Secret Surveillance of Americans

For more than a decade, Senator Ron Wyden has positioned himself as Congress's most persistent watchdog over the intelligence community's clandestine data collection practice...

The Digital Dragnet: Washington’s Unrelenting Push for DNA and Social Data Transforms U.S. Borders

WASHINGTON—In detention facilities along the U.S. border and in consular offices around the globe, a quiet but profound revolution in government surveillance is taking place....

The Unseen Scan: How Your Driver’s License Became a Tool in ICE’s Vast Facial Recognition Network

WASHINGTON—Without a warrant and often without the public's knowledge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has transformed state Driver's License databases into a...

Apple Warns Fired iOS Exploit Developer of Mercenary Spyware Attack

In a twist that underscores the shadowy intersections of cybersecurity, corporate intrigue, and state surveillance, Apple recently issued a stark warning to a former employee of Tr...

ToTok Removed From Apple and Google Stores Amid Claims It’s a Government Spying App

ToTok was released only months ago and has climbed the charts to become one of the most popular messaging apps in Britain, India, Saudi Arabia and Sweden,...

People Aren’t That Concerned About Government Surveillance, Even Post Snowden

Pew has just published a new report on Americans and how they protect their privacy i...

Video Surveillance Market Continues to Expand

With the numerous disclosures from former NSA employee Edward Snowden that were released in 2013, a new light has been shined on a shadowy world of information gathering and govern...

FBI Is Hoping To Wiretap Internet Services – Should It Be Allowed?

As technologies have advanced, they have dramatically changed the way that we live and interact. We, as consumers, have become accustomed to the convenience, capabilities, and even...

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