More tech companies are publishing “transparency reports” to show how governments get information about users. The reports are an important civil liberties tool — but are also being used as PR… Read more »
Tech companies want to disclose the number of surveillance requests they receive. The government is opposing the companies in court but everything is on hold because the government shut down most… Read more »
The Electronic Frontier Foundation resigned from the Global Network Initiative, a group of tech firms dedicated to opposing internet censorship. The resignation appears to be primarily a symbolic gesture. Read more »
The FBI and the US government say Google, Microsoft and other tech firms have no free speech right to declare how many data demands they receive under a controversial Foreign Intelligence… Read more »
The secret court that oversees America’s spy agencies explained (a bit) about why it believes the mass collection of phone records is legal under the Patriot Act and the Constitution. Read more »
In response to a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, a secret spy court has ordered the federal government to declassify decisions (issued by the spy court) that authorized the NSA to… Read more »
Microsoft and Google are fighting for the right to reveal the number of surveillance requests they receive from the National Security Agency. New court filings that appeared on Friday provide new… Read more »
New leaks reveal how the government is using a massive secret program to break into personal, business and financial communications long considered secure. Here’s the most important takeaways. Read more »
America’s intelligence czar says his office will for the first time publish a transparency report, in part similar to the ones issued by tech companies, that will show how often the… Read more »
Five years ago, Yahoo lost a challenge to the federal government’s demands to impose surveillance technology. In September, we will find out what happened. Read more »