Surveillance

Politics

Ex-NSA Chief Hayden Finally Admits Snowden Is a Whistleblower

Zenon Evans | 7.28.2014 5:00 PM

Surveillance

Spying on Everybody Threatens a Free Press Says Groups, Common Sense

Human Rights Watch and ACLU put out joint report

Reason Staff | 7.28.2014 2:00 PM

NSA

How Much Longer Until the Government Thinks Everybody Is a Terrorist?

Scott Shackford | 7.24.2014 11:10 AM

Surveillance

Secret Guidelines for Putting People on Terrorist Watchlist Revealed

They're scarily vague and broad.

Reason Staff | 7.23.2014 3:10 PM

Civil Liberties

Mask Up for San Diego's Growing Surveillance State

J.D. Tuccille | 7.22.2014 3:27 PM

Civil Liberties

The NSA Is Totally Passing Around Your Sexy Selfies

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.18.2014 7:15 AM

Surveillance

U.N.: Governments Coerce Companies to Do Their Surveillance Bidding

Zenon Evans | 7.16.2014 2:20 PM

Politics

German Committee May Use Typewriters to Combat American Espionage

Zenon Evans | 7.15.2014 1:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Turning Yourself Into a Surveillance Camera May be Perfectly Legal

Sousveillance as a constitutional right.

Jerry Brito | 7.14.2014 1:30 PM

Policy

Vid: These White Boxes Could Track Your Every Move

Paul Detrick | 7.13.2014 5:00 PM

Civil Liberties

'Total Population Control' is NSA's Goal, Says Whistleblower

J.D. Tuccille | 7.11.2014 2:02 PM

Central Intelligence Agency

DOJ Backs Off CIA/Senate Snooping Slap Fight

Scott Shackford | 7.11.2014 10:05 AM

Surveillance

Germany Asks US Intelligence Chief to Leave the Country

Ed Krayewski | 7.10.2014 1:06 PM

Politics

Spy Scandal Worsens: ANOTHER Alleged U.S. Agent Discovered in Berlin

Zenon Evans | 7.9.2014 2:30 PM

NSA

What You Should Take Away From Glenn Greenwald's Latest NSA Report

Scott Shackford | 7.9.2014 11:10 AM

Policy

The NSA's Online Dragnet

Warrantless surveillance hits the target, along with many other people.

Jacob Sullum | 7.9.2014 7:00 AM

NSA

Time to Name Names: Greenwald Reveals American Targets of NSA Snooping

Scott Shackford | 7.9.2014 12:27 AM

NSA

If You Want the NSA to Monitor You, Do This.

Ronald Bailey | 7.8.2014 11:05 AM

Surveillance

U.S.-German Double Agent Scandal 'Worst in Decades'

Zenon Evans | 7.7.2014 5:36 PM

Policy

Live in Syracuse? Want to Avoid Cop Cameras? Check This Out.

Zenon Evans | 7.7.2014 12:35 PM

NSA

Earth to NSA: It's Not 'Inadvertent' Collection of Private Data if You Know and Keep Doing It

Scott Shackford | 7.7.2014 10:40 AM

Politics

If You're Reading Reason.com, The NSA is Probably Already Following You

Nick Gillespie | 7.6.2014 8:25 AM

NSA

Former NSA Technical Director Tells German Committee Spy Agency Has "Totalitarian Mentality"

Ed Krayewski | 7.3.2014 3:56 PM

NSA

Value Online Privacy? NSA Classifies You as an 'Extremist,' Collects More Than Metadata

Zenon Evans | 7.3.2014 3:45 PM

NSA

Federal Privacy Oversight Board: Phone Metadata Collection Bad; Internet Metadata Collection Good

Scott Shackford | 7.2.2014 3:35 PM

Politics

Bipartisan Senate Duo Pressures Obama for Real Surveillance Reform

Zenon Evans | 7.2.2014 1:37 PM

Civil Liberties

NSA Allowed to Spy On Pretty Much Anyone, Anywhere, Documents Reveal

Broad authorization, convenient legal interpretations, and technical hanky-panky put us all at risk.

J.D. Tuccille | 7.1.2014 5:07 PM

NSA

If You're Connected to the Internet, the NSA Always Has Ways of Spying On You

Ronald Bailey | 7.1.2014 2:32 PM

Policy

Crowd Intelligence

Outsmarting the CIA

Zenon Evans | 7.1.2014 12:00 PM

Science & Technology

Lawmaker Slams Ex-NSA Chief: 'Nothing to Offer' but State Secrets

Zenon Evans | 6.27.2014 12:40 PM

Civil Liberties

About That Creepy Biometric Database, FBI, We'd Like to Know a Bit More

J.D. Tuccille | 6.26.2014 2:52 PM

Civil Liberties

'Complete Control': Notorious Surveillance Contractor Tech Uncovered

Zenon Evans | 6.26.2014 1:38 PM

NSA

House Passes Amendment Ordering Actual Restraints on NSA Searches

Scott Shackford | 6.20.2014 12:32 AM

Politics

Does TSA = Troyer Squeezing Administration?

Nick Gillespie | 6.18.2014 7:10 AM

Policy

Can Ignorance Protect Your Privacy?

A ruling against warrantless tracking assumes that people don't know how cellphones work.

Jacob Sullum | 6.18.2014 7:00 AM

Culture

WTF FBI? Agency Has Huge List of Twitter Slang (and Some of It's Fake)

Here's nine of the weirdest. ALOTBSOL, AMIRITE?

Zenon Evans | 6.17.2014 2:16 PM

NSA

Sens. Wyden, Udall, Paul take to L.A. Times to Demand Real NSA Reform

Scott Shackford | 6.17.2014 10:31 AM

Policy

Federal Appeals Court: Cellphone Tracking Requires a Warrant

Jacob Sullum | 6.12.2014 2:01 PM

Civil Liberties

We're Too Big and Disorganized to Comply With Court Orders, Says NSA

J.D. Tuccille | 6.10.2014 7:52 PM

Culture

Welcome to the Naked Future

Celebrating the death of privacy

Ronald Bailey | 6.8.2014 10:00 AM

Civil Liberties

LAPD Acquires Two Drones

Paul Detrick | 6.8.2014 9:30 AM

Civil Liberties

Governments Constantly Tap Your Calls, Warns International Telecom

J.D. Tuccille | 6.6.2014 4:48 PM

Civil Liberties

What Did Edward Snowden Teach Us in Just One Year?

Scott Shackford | 6.5.2014 3:33 PM

Edward Snowden

Snowden One Year Anniversary: Americans Still Being Spied On By Their Own Government

Ronald Bailey | 6.5.2014 1:11 PM

Civil Liberties

NSA Hammered by Unwelcome Headlines, Even With a Small Courtroom Win

Chances are, the professional snoops are pining for the quieter old days.

J.D. Tuccille | 6.4.2014 5:11 PM

NSA

Admiral Michael Rogers, New NSA Director Really Doesn't Get Why Americans Don't Want to Be Spied On

Ronald Bailey | 6.4.2014 11:23 AM

Civil Liberties

US Marshals Seize FL Cops' Surveillance Records to Deny Them to ACLU

J.D. Tuccille | 6.4.2014 9:31 AM