NSA Watch

Journalist Glenn Greenwald has suspended the publication of a major story believed to be focused on clandestine National Security Agency activities.

The German government is ending its relationship with U.S.-based Verizon over espionage concerns following last year’s surveillance disclosures by Edward Snowden.

John Kerry called Edward Snowden’s decision to leak thousands of classified documents an “act of civil disobedience” that comes with “consequences.”

Microsoft took the FBI to court last year over a national security letter (NSL) that requested information about an unknown Microsoft customer.

The nation’s top intelligence boss claims Edward Snowden did not raise concerns internally with the NSA before going public on clandestine surveillance programs last year.

Google could offer website owners an incentive for using strong encryption methods: A higher placement on search engine results, which would undoubtedly yield more traffic.

The NSA knew about and exploited a massive flaw in a protocol used to secure the transmission of sensitive information over the Internet, according to a Bloomberg report.

The NSA performed an unknown number of warrantless searches on the phone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens, according to a letter penned by a top intelligence boss.

Government officials didn’t understand a massive phone surveillance program they were tasked with overseeing, the nation’s top spy boss admitted in court documents de-classified on Friday.

The NSA will receive bulk call records from American telephone companies for another 90 days under what is believed to be the final extension of such a request by the FISA Court.

Edward Snowden has rejected allegations that he disclosed dozens of spy programs and techniques used by the National Security Agency while cooperating with the Russian government.

A former British spy boss says the GCHQ’s access to a trove of text messages collected by their counterparts at the NSA is “perfectly lawful.”

It will take some time before the international community will be able to trust the U.S. government, President Obama acknowledged in an interview Saturday.

Former government contractor Edward Snowden frequently found bugs in NSA software that the agency never patched, a former colleague told Forbes in December.

The NSA has the ability to covertly monitor the contents of 100,000 “offline” computers, according to a report by the New York Times.

A former White House cybersecurity official says the NSA’s global surveillance programs may be legal, but are morally wrong and go too far.

President Obama has decided that the NSA’s bulk data collection program is valuable as a counterterrorism tool, according to a newspaper report published Thursday.

Spy chief James Clapper did not lie to Congress when he denied the NSA was collecting data on millions of Americans, the ODNI general counsel said Friday.

The former head of the NSA encouraged President Obama to discard suggestions made by a review panel on the agency’s dragnet spying programs.

America’s elected officials are probably not immune from government surveillance programs.

The NSA has secured a multi-million dollar research fund that, in part, pays for the development of a massive supercomputer capable of breaking nearly every kind of encryption standard used on the internet.

Senator Rand Paul announced his intention to file a lawsuit against the Obama administration over the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone records.

Several American tech companies have responded to a report published in Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine detailing how NSA agents exploit vulnerabilities in their hardware and software.

Documents published by a German newspaper on Monday detailed techniques and equipment used by a top secret cyber surveillance group at the NSA.