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 ...

Unless you have been living under a rock, you will have heard the news that the US government is apparently spying on almost every digital bit that passes through the nation's optical fiber highways ...

Within 24 hours, the leak of two documents has revealed a vast network of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance operations that were authorized by FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) ...

Edward Snowden is a name you'll be hearing a lot in the coming weeks. The 29-year-old former contract employee for the NSA has blown the whistle on NSA's top-secret Prism program, which aims to tap ...

CHICAGO — “Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re being watched and recorded,” 29-year-old spy Edward Snowden told the Guardian last Sunday, openly identifying himself as the whistleblower on ...

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 ...

Though British political leaders on Tuesday expressed a relaxed attitude about the safety of citizen data in their country, other European lawmakers seem to be a lot less happy, as the aftershocks ...

Recorded on June 11, 2013. Colleen Taylor talks to TechCrunch columnist and author of the book “Digital Vertigo” Andrew Keen about the privacy issues surrounding the NSA’s Prism program. Last chance ...

Has Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stepped in it? First it was Tim Cook of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) speaking on Capitol Hill about taxation, and now could Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer be called ...