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He Didn’t Give Police His iPhone Pass Code, So He Got 180 Days in Jail…

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A Hollywood man must serve 180 days in jail for refusing to give up his iPhone password to police, a Broward judge ruled Tuesday — the latest salvo in intensifying legal battles over law-enforcement access to smart phones. Christopher Wheeler, 41, was taken into custody in a Broward Circuit Court, insisting he had already provided […]

Trump, after House Panel Subpoenas, Backs Probing Obama Administration…

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday backed the U.S. House Intelligence Committee’s efforts to investigate actions by U.S. security and other officials under previous president Barack Obama, inserting himself into a political feud over its latest subpoenas in the Russia probe. “The big story is the ‘unmasking and surveillance’ of people that took place during […]

Major U.S. Tech Firms Press Congress for Internet Surveillance Reforms…

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Facebook, Amazon and more than two dozen other U.S. technology companies pressed Congress on Friday to make changes to a broad internet surveillance law, saying they were necessary to improve privacy protections and increase government transparency. The request marks the first significant public effort by Silicon Valley to wade into what is expected to be […]

A Federal Appeals Court Cleared the Way for a Lawsuit Against NSA’s Surveillance Practices…

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A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency’s collection of emails, texts and other online communications that privacy experts have long argued violates constitutional protections of Americans’ privacy. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond on Tuesday reversed a lower court decision and declared […]

President Obama’s Team Sought NSA Intel on Thousands of Americans During the 2016 Election…

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During his final year in office, President Obama’s team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election. The data, made available this week by the Office of […]

Reined-In N.S.A. Still Collected 151 Million Phone Records in ’16…

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The National Security Agency vacuumed up more than 151 million records about Americans’ phone calls last year via a new system that Congress created to end the agency’s once-secret program that collected domestic calling records in bulk, a report disclosed Tuesday. Although the number is large on its face, it nonetheless represents a massive reduction […]

N.S.A. Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets…

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The National Security Agency has halted one of the most disputed practices of its warrantless wiretapping program: collecting Americans’ emails and texts to and from people overseas that mention foreigners targeted for surveillance, according to officials familiar with the matter. National security officials have argued that such surveillance is lawful and helpful in identifying…

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