GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul did not mince words in a campaign stop at George Mason University, Virginia Thursday, labeling a call for increased government surveillance as “Bullsh*t”. “So when they stand up on television and says ‘the tragedy in Paris means you have to give up your liberty. We need more phone surveillance.’ Bullshit.” Paul told a crowd of students who enthusiastically... 

During an interview with Yahoo News, presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said if elected he will boost the surveillance grid to fight Islamic terrorism. Trump said, “security is going to rule” under his administration. “We’re going to have to do things that we never did before,” he responded when asked if he would permit the use of warrantless searches at the expense of the Fourth Amendment. “And... 

A group of hackers has won a $1-million bounty offered by a company affiliated with NSA for remotely hacking the latest iPhone operating system. The prize was offered by the French cybersecurity firm Zerodium as part of a challenge set to demonstrate the possibility of remotely jailbreaking devices running iOS 9.1. The hack makes it easier for intelligence agencies such as the NSA and the CIA to spy... 

The majority of European Parliament members have voted in favor of asking constituent states to grant protection to whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has described the move as a ‘game-changer’ and a ‘chance to move forward’. MEPs have urged EU member states to “drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently prevent extradition... 

Facebook acted like the US’s National Security Agency when spying on the social network’s European users without consent or authority, according to a Belgian data protection watchdog. Earlier, the Belgian Privacy Commission (BPC) filed a lawsuit against Facebook, which the BPC said is spying on people in “the very same way” that the US National Security Agency (NSA) does, according... 

Telecom giant AT&T Inc has played a bigger than previously thought role in helping the National Security Agency (NSA) spy on swathes of internet traffic, which included wiretapping all UN headquarters’ communications, The New York Times has revealed. The report is based on leaked documents, which date from 2003 to 2013 and were provided by whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.... 

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has signaled his readiness to help Germany’s parliamentary panel investigate US National Security Agency spying on German politicians, according to his interview with the magazine Der Spiegel. In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said, among other things, that he is poised and ready to provide assistance to the... 

US National Security Agency (NSA) intercepts nearly all communications in the South American continent, WikiLeaks revealed. Founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks Julian Assange says the US National Security Agency intercepts almost all communications in the South American continent. “Ninety-eight percent of Latin American communications are intercepted by the NSA while passing through the... 

Whistleblower website WikiLeaks says the US National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropped on two successive French finance ministers and the country’s high-stakes export contracts, trade and budget talks over a decade. According to new documents released by the transparency website on Monday, the NSA wiretapped the communications of two finance ministers Francois Baroin and Pierre Moscovici and three... 

The US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on the last three presidents of France from 2006 until 2012, according to newly released documents from the WikiLeaks whistleblower website. The NSA wiretapped former French presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy as well the current leader Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press statement published on Tuesday, citing top secret intelligence reports... 

US and British spy agencies worked to reverse-engineer antivirus software in order to “exploit such software and to prevent detection of our activities.” Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab was particularly targeted. Citing documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden more than two years ago, The Intercept reported Monday that the US National Security Agency (NSA)... 

The British MI6 secret service had to suspend operations of its field agents due to imminent exposure in “hostile” countries such as Russia and China, caused by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s leaks, the Sunday Times reports. The Sunday Times alleges that both Moscow and Beijing have succeeded in cracking top-secret encrypted documents leaked by Snowden and thus learnt MI6’s methods. The... 

Department of Justice officials have asked a federal court to restart the NSA spy programs shut down when portions of the Patriot Act expired on June 1. The US government claims the Freedom Act allows surveillance to continue for six more months. In a filing to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), revealed Monday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) requested permission to continue the... 

On January 21, 1950, US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, one of the greatest civil libertarians in the history of his country, warned of the impact of Cold War anti-Communist hysteria on American liberties in a speech to 500 delegates at a conference of the American Jewish Committee. His speech on this day was titled “Fear Obscures Reason.” And in one of his most famous opinions, Justice Black... 

The United States has devolved into a “soft-core totalitarian dictatorship” and other nations should disassociate from it, activist and radio host Rodney Martin says. The United States has devolved into a “soft-core totalitarian dictatorship” and other nations should begin to disassociate from it, according to an American activist and radio host in California. Rodney Martin, the chairman of...