Abolish the NSA and CIA
Ending these unaccountable agencies would safeguard civil liberties and improve intelligence gathering.
Ending these unaccountable agencies would safeguard civil liberties and improve intelligence gathering.
Campaign finance records reveal what the community at the heart of U.S. national security policy thinks about outside politics.
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Cyber intrusions, arson, bombings, and other mayhem feature in the conflict between West and East.
A new letter from Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) reveals that the agency admitted the practice nearly three years ago but would not allow him to reveal it.
The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act would stop a lot of warrantless surveillance as a condition for renewal of Section 702 authorities.
The journalist and podcast host on foreign policy, democracy, and habitual law breaking by the NSA, CIA, and FBI
The reauthorization of Section 702 is one of the most important issues facing Congress in the second half of this year.
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The record penalty seems to be based less on the Facebook parent company's lax data practices than the U.S. intelligence community's data-collection programs.
Despite some headway in protecting privacy, the surveillance state hasn’t gone away.
The Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs author and former Reason staffer reports back from post-privacy America.
Officials shield government abuses from litigation by claiming “national security.” The Supreme Court declined to weigh in.
These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
Part of a law that authorizes warrantless snooping is about to expire, opening up a opportunity to better protect our privacy rights.
But a few remnants of post-9/11 foreign and domestic policy still need to be thrown out.
Stop government interference in reproduction, medical decisions, gun ownership, drug use, and more.
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Do Americans have a right to know the extent that the government surveils them?
We may have misinterpreted 9/11 as a harbinger, when it was really just an outlier.
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.
We were warned about the dangerous power of the USA PATRIOT Act. Edward Snowden proved that critics were justified.
The Reign of Terror author on fighting surveillance and interventionism done in the name of stopping jihad.
The Fox News pundit’s emails were probably reviewed legally—and that’s part of the problem.
The surveillance whistleblower has a child on the way and little sign a pardon is forthcoming.
The National Security Agency arranged for security systems to be secretly compromised. Then the Chinese government allegedly found its way in.
Part three in Reason's documentary series, "Cypherpunks Write Code," tells the story of the U.S. government's long battle to keep strong cryptography out of the hands of its citizens
A federal appeals court concludes that the agency's mass collection of phone records was illegal and probably unconstitutional.
All the worst people are still mad he blew the whistle on government snooping.
At least something good could come out of this mess of an investigation.
Barton Gellman's new book is a riveting account of exposing NSA excesses to the light of the day.
People insisted the wiretapping of Carter Page was perfectly normal. That turned out to be wrong.
The USA Freedom Act expired in March. Some senators are pushing for better privacy protections before the renewal vote.
The USA Freedom Act is about to sunset. Who will decide how and if it will be changed?
A congressional battle erupts over how much to reform the soon-to-expire USA Freedom Act—if they reform it at all.
She’s nearly three years into a five-year sentence for releasing classified documents showing Russian attempts to hack U.S. election systems.
A bipartisan coalition wants to restrain secret snooping and create more independent oversight of the secretive FISA Court.
A judge rules whistleblower’s failure to subject Permanent Record to pre-publication review violates non-disclosure agreement.
Nunes attacked those who wanted to restrain NSA’s snooping. Clearly he never considered whether his call records would be exposed.
Freedom could never be imposed at the point of a gun, but perhaps it could be sown by the spread of silicon and fiber. Or so I thought.
Snowden didn’t subject his autobiography Permanent Record to pre-publication review by the federal government that’s also trying to throw him in prison.
Don't blame him for any FISA abuses. He's been fighting it for years.
Section 215 has been used to secretly access our private data, but hasn't accomplished much.
After years of political fights over our privacy, a potential end in mass phone metadata collection
The feds have allegedly abandoned the program. These four want to make sure it stays dead.
Backdoors into your texts and private message provide far more information than your phone metadata.
For years, security state advocates fought to maintain the authority to snoop on your phone records. Are they really giving up?