Objections by the companies come after Republicans in the House of Representatives negotiated with Prez Obama’s administration.

Greenwald’s book also reproduces a document listing embassies and missions that had been penetrated by the NSA, including that of India.

Zuckerberg said he had called Obama to complain that the US govt is undermining confidence in the Internet with vast, secret surveillance p...

Documents leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden showed that Social Democrat (SPD) chancellor Schroeder ...

Every time smartphone users fire up apps like Angry Birds and Google Maps, US and British spy agencies extract huge amounts of personal dat...

Obama defended the controversial spying programme as necessary to safeguard the security of America and its allies, including Germany.

In a bid to allay global outrage after the leak of the US snooping programme, Obama yesterday put an end to the surveillance of "foreign le...

The NSA revelations Snowden brought to light represent one of our generation's greatest threats to press freedom.

A judge ruled that controversial mass surveillance of phone records by US intelligence was "arbitrary" and "indiscriminate".

Praising the work being done by the NSA, the federal agency Internet surveillance programme, Obama said he is proposing self-restrain on NS...

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum by Russia after he leaked sensitive data on the surveillance programme.

US' NSA mines Facebook and other social media profiles, in addition to phone records and email logs, to create maps of activities -- includ...

The journalist who first published secrets leaked by fugitive former US intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed on Monday to pu...

Edward Snowden, currently sheltered in the transit zone of Moscow airport, has sought asylum in 20 countries, including India.

Uncle Sam’s plans to listen world’s communications is the latest attempt in compulsive snooping, and has got the whole world in stitches

US Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the leaks of classified information about secret electronic surveillance p...

"In March 2013 the agency collected 97 billion pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide," reported the newspaper.