US Senate blocks House approved bill to eliminate phone data collection
The US Senate on Saturday blocked a House passed bill that would end the mass collection of phone records by the National Security Agency (NSA) in an after midnight vote of 57-42. Supporters of the...
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approves the USA Freedom Act , which would end the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass collection of Americans' phone data. The measure, approved by a vote of 338...
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for a rewrite of the Patriot Act , including elimination of the National Security Agency (NSA) phone data collection program. Obama's call follows a decision by the...
Former CIA officer sentenced to 42 months in prison for Iran leaks
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced Monday to 42 months in prison after being convicted of telling New York Times journalist James Risen about classified plans to thwart Iran's nuclear...
Federal appeals court finds NSA mass surveillance not authorized under Patriot Act
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the Patriot Act does not authorize the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect millions of Americans' phone records. The...
French aviation giant Airbus said Friday it is filing criminal complaints alleging that German intelligence helped the US carry out industrial espionage. The criminal complaint against persons unknown was filed following German media reports that the country's...
The French Parliament on Monday debated a bill that would give French intelligence services more powers to bug and track potential terrorists in France. The bill would require Internet companies to monitor suspicious behavior. Internet...
Rights groups take UK government to European Human Rights Court over mass surveillance
Amnesty International (AI) revealed on Friday that the group, along with other prominent human rights organizations, has submitted an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) , bringing claims of indiscriminate surveillance...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) filed suit Tuesday accusing the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of collecting records of the organization's telephone calls to foreign countries. The DEA attempted to make the existence of...
France's government on Thursday pushed a surveillance bill that would give French intelligence services the authority to monitor metadata. The government's hope is that such action would prevent an imminent terror attack . Parliamentary debate on the bill...
