NSA

New documents show that multiple spy agencies in the US, as well as GCHQ in the UK, used online games as way to track down terrorists.

After being burned in the outrage over the NSA's access to private user data, eight tech giants have asked for changes.

Microsoft has insisted in a blog post that it will not roll over for government agencies, unless it has to.

US security agency is caching location data from five billion calls every day, according to new Edward Snowden documents.

Gary Marshall Microsoft is being mocked all over the internet for its parody of the ancient and unfunny "Keep Calm and Carry On". Wait, though. Maybe Microsoft has a point.

Google's chief internet evangelist said this week that privacy (or our sense of it) will increasingly be harder to achieve.

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer lays out plans to encrypt all data moving through the company's data centers, more.

Money talks and so do money-hungry phone carriers with call records, according to a new report.

Updated The NSA, along with the GCHQ, tapped into connections between the companies' data centers, according to the latest Snowden revelation.

White House denies currently spying on Angela Merkel's communications but never speaks of past actions.

A new report says typical intake figures for a single day from 2012 points to a rate of more than 250 million accounts a year that the NSA collected contact lists from.

Spy agencies square off with Congress over proposed reforms that would prevent phone record data collection and more.

Google's Eric Schmidt says "it's the nature of our society" for spying, like we've seen at the NSA, to take place.

The Facebook founder didn't shy away from being critical of the U.S. government and its failure to balance security with freedom.

Yahoo has sued the Department of Justice for the right to reveal the number of national security-related information requests it gets.

Google has been encrypting information flowing around its data centres to ward of prying government eyes.

U.S. and U.K. governments may have cracked encryption methods employed by the likes of Facebook and Google.

Chief spy promises transparency, bigwig tech companies say it's only a 'good start.'

Facebook was asked for information on more than 38,000 of its users in the first half of 2013.

Guardian editor calls government posturing 'pointless symbolism' in the digital age.