(Reuters) – Mental health advocates are worried that the privacy of people who have received treatment for their illnesses could be jeopardized by a White House push to expand a database used to run...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former federal judge who served on a secret court overseeing the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs said Tuesday the panel is independent but flawed because only the government’s side...
Secret court rulings have allowed the NSA to gather phone data on millions of Americans, all hinging on the definition of the word “relevant.” This change in the law came from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,...
The Obama administration reportedly is easing requirements on those seeking government aid through ObamaCare, making it easier to apply for subsidies just days after making another major change to the law’s implementation. Reuters first...
Following outrage and controversy last year over the Obama administration’s unprecedented decision to invite Russian troops for terror drills on U.S. soil, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is now under fire for signing...
Having experienced two dictatorships with notoriously effective intelligence systems, Germans are furious about NSA eavesdropping. Now they want to put even stricter rules in place — but without paying the necessary price. So maybe...
Huge crowds have rallied across the US and abroad against the NSA’s massive global surveillance programme. The ‘Restore the Fourth’ movement initially emerged on social networks and has quickly gained support with its calls...
A Hypnotic Visualization of Everything Gmail Knows About You and Your Friends Immersion, a tool built by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, helps Gmail users understand their own trail of Internet breadcrumbs. (MIT Media Lab)...
Obama administration officials are illegally delaying enforcement of a central provision in the president’s namesake legislation in a desperate attempt to manipulate the 2014 midterm elections and swell the ranks of those who look...
Egypt is bracing for a showdown between the military and President Mohammed Morsi, who has rejected an army ultimatum to end a political crisis with his opponents, vowing to stay in office. The ultimatum...
