Apple Fields Data Requests for 10,000 Users Accounts

Since December, U.S. law enforcement agencies have made between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from Apple on as many 10,000 user accounts, the company said in a statement released last night. Apple said in the wake of allegations that it participates in feeding the U.S. government...

NSA Director Alexander Grilled by Senate Committee

National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander was asked some pointed questions by the Senate Appropriations Committee this afternoon regarding the spy agency’s surveillance of Americans’ phone calls and electronic communication in the name of fighting terrorism. Alexander provided little...

Google Requests More Transparency to Dispel PRISM

Google’s chief legal officer addressed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller contesting recent media reports regarding the breadth of the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs and requesting that his company be allowed to publish more national securit...

Clappers Says NSA Programs Fully Authorized and Necessary

The top U.S. intelligence official addressed the recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s covert cell-phone and email data collection surveillance programs on Thursday, saying that the programs have been ongoing for years, are fully authorized under U.S. law and that the leaks...

Senate Reauthorizes FISA, Rejects Proposed Privacy Amendments

UPDATE – The Senate today rejected the inclusion of four privacy-friendly amendments before voting to reauthorize the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA that grants the federal government the authority to clandestinely monitor electronic communications involving foreign...

NSA intercepting 1.7 billion American electronic communications daily

NSA intercepting 1.7 billion American electronic communications daily Since 9/11, the Agency has been able to "spy" on electronic communications without the need for court-approved warrants. The group has a large complex in Utah that cost $2 billion and holds the data. In 2006 the New York Times...