mass surveillance

A little-known U.S. Postal Service program dubbed the “mail covers program” has long provided information about certain Americans’ mail to federal law enforcement agencies, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

Congress reauthorized America’s warrantless wiretapping program last month after some successful fearmongering by national security hawks on Capitol Hill.

A former employee of the National Security Agency was sentenced to 262 months, just shy of 22 years, in prison on Monday for trying to send classified information to someone he thought was a Russian spy, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As it turns out, the Russian spy was…

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This week, Congress is expected to vote on a bill that would update key federal surveillance authorities. The legislation has been packaged by its proponents as a reform but is, in reality, an attempt to vastly expand the government’s spying powers, privacy advocates say.

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The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee released a mysterious statement Wednesday morning that warned of a “national security threat” facing the United States.

The National Security Agency (NSA) is purchasing Americans’ internet records, according to government documents made public on Friday. U.S.

A rare bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has teamed up to propose major privacy reforms that could fundamentally reign in the US government’s most powerful domestic surveillance tools.

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New Yorkers kicking back with beers and burgers this Labor Day weekend could have an unexpected guest hovering over their backyards.

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted forward a bill that would force tech companies to report web users to the Drug Enforcement Agency if they suspected them of engaging in criminal drug activity. The controversial Cooper Davis Act, named so after a Kansas teenager who died of a fentanyl overdose in…