The FBI wants to set a legal precedent, not break into an iPhone
By Matthew Gault The FBI wants Apple to give it the tools to break into the iPhone of the San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook. In...
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US NSA’s phone spying programme ruled illegal by appeals court
By Jonathan Stempel A US spying programme that systematically collects millions of Americans’ phone records is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, putting...
One dead, one hurt as men try to ram U.S. spy agency gates
Guards shot one man dead and seriously wounded a second when they tried to ram a vehicle into the entrance gate at the Fort Meade,...
Canada allowed widespread NSA surveillance at 2010 G20 summit – report
By David Ljunggren Canada allowed the U.S. National Security Agency to conduct widespread surveillance during the 2010 Group of 20 summit in Toronto, according to...
US logged 33 million phone calls in NATO ally Norway – report
By Gwladys Fouche The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) logged more than 33 million Norwegian phone conversations over a period of a month last winter,...
Snowden writes to Germans to seek support in spy row
By Stephen Brown and Alexandra Hudson Fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has told Germany he is counting on international support to stop Washington’s ‘persecution’...
German journalists urged to shun Google and Yahoo
By Harro Ten Wolde The union representing German journalists advised its members on Thursday to stop using Google and Yahoo because of reported snooping by...
US spy chiefs face Congress amid spying rift with Europe
By Tabassum Zakaria and Deborah Charles When top U.S. intelligence officials testified at a congressional hearing weeks ago, the public uproar was over the National...
Germany, France to unite in anger over US spying accusations
By Luke Baker German and French accusations that the United States has run spying operations in their countries, including possibly bugging Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile...
Merkel calls Obama over suspicion US monitored her phone
The German government has obtained information that the United States may have monitored the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel and she called President Barack...
France summons US ambassador over spying report
By Adrian Croft and Arshad Mohammed France summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday to protest allegations in Le Monde newspaper about large-scale spying on French...
US spied on presidents of Brazil, Mexico – report
By Anthony Boadle The U.S. National Security Agency spied on the communications of the presidents of Brazil and Mexico, a Brazilian news programme reported, a...
NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year – report
By Eric Beech The U.S. National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since 2008, the...
New US spying revelations coming from Snowden leaks – journalist
By Anthony Boadle Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who published documents leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, plans to make new revelations...
US extends embassy closings, lawmakers say threat serious
By Tabassum Zakaria The United States extended embassy closures by a week in the Middle East and Africa as a precaution on Sunday after an...
British spy agency taps cables, shares with NSA – Guardian
By Rosalba O’Brien and Michael Holden Britain’s spy agency GCHQ has tapped fiber-optic cables that carry international phone and internet traffic and is sharing vast...