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?
Hacking tools end up in the hands of some dangerous people. So, apparently, do our government hackers.
This will have potentially serious consequences for those investigating election meddling.
The USA Freedom Act was supposed to reduce unwarranted access to our personal data. That's not what happened.
Our terrible federal espionage laws won't let her argue the leak served the public's interest.
Democrats are rehabilitating the deservedly poor reputations of surveillance-state officials who were caught lying to the American people
Public-key encryption has brought a drastic shift in power from the state to individuals.
The surveillance agency's mission statement is updated to reflect reality: It doesn't answer to you.
The former Director of National Intelligence lied under oath about warrantless NSA spying on American citizens.
The NSA's surveillance of international communications is not limited to "foreign bad guys on foreign land."
Push by lawmakers for stricter warrant requirements fails.
Hours later he walks it back.
House to vote on a bill that would codify unwarranted searches of Americans' communications.
Short extension of FISA snooping powers shoved into temporary spending bill.
The crew of The Post celebrates leaking the Pentagon Papers but gets all touchy when Obama's secret surveillance is mentioned.
Can they get past the FBI vs. Trump narrative to talk about snooping on the rest of us?
Congress might quietly expand the feds' surveillance powers without any actual debate.
Will snooping reauthorizations just get quietly dumped into a spending bill?
FISA reauthorization would majorly expand use of warrantless digital surveillance data against Americans.
The backdoor, warrantless searches won't end, but will see new limits.
It's time to rein in warrantless domestic surveillance before it's too late.
A Senate report on Trump administration leaks overstates national security risks.
Meet the developers behind Blockstack, who are using blockchain technology to reconfigure the web. It'll make NSA mass data collection impossible.
Trump and group of GOP senators don't want us to have greater privacy protections from unwarranted domestic surveillance.
Imprisoning people who reveal top-secret reports has become business as usual. Should it be?
A failure of transparency and responsibility by multiple nations.
More than 150 million phone call records of Americans were collected in 2016.
No more gathering communications from Americans that were 'about' a foreign target.