According to former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Mr.Edward Snowden latest leaked documents shows that GCHQ and NSA spy agencies surveyed drones for military purposes from Israel.  The American and British spying are part of regula...

Foreign law enforcement agencies will be allowed to tap Irish phone calls and intercept emails under a statutory instrument signed into law by Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald. Companies that object or refuse to comply with an intercept or...

Still from CitizenFour showing Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong. Credit: (Courtesy of RADiUS-TWC) Since revelations about the extent of government surveillance began to flow from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Sn...

Documents released by the U.S. government show it views an executive order issued in 1981 as the basis of most of the National Security Agency's surveillance activities, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday. The NSA relied on Execu...

 Last year, the National Security Agency (NSA) reviewed all of Edward Snowden's available emails in addition to interviewing NSA employees and contractors in order to determine if he had ever raised concerns internally about the agency's vast su...

Americans have been self-censoring their discussions about state surveillance in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, researchers have found. Approximately 86% of adults were “very” or “somewhat” willing to discuss the findings in ...

U.S. intelligence agencies fear Edward Snowden has achieved celebrity as a leaker and could be inspiring others to disclose classified national security information. One indication of that may be in new documents published this week by the Interc...

The asylum granted by Russia to NSA leaker Edward Snowden ran out last night with no extension announced. His lawyer is quoted in the Russian media as saying he expects an extension, according to AP, but none has been reported so far. As recentl...

Germany would rather see Edward Snowden return home than have him on their turf. The country's justice minister Heiko Maas said in an interview Tuesday that the former NSA contractor should strike a deal with U.S. authorities to return.  Snowden,...

Edward Snowden claims he wants to keep up the fight against the NSA and other high-level spy agencies. The question is whether or not we can trust him, or if he’ll just go back to spying on us like a secret cell of the NSA. It’s what Snowden was ...

Over at Lawfare, Ben Wittes argues that Edward Snowden violated the Privacy Act when he gave the Washington Post the private communications of individuals spied on by the NSA. The law in question states: Any officer or employee of an agency, who ...

The Central Intelligence Agency recruited a German intelligence official in an apparent quest to get information about Berlin's probe into U.S. spying on the country and its leaders.  The German was arrested late last week on suspicion of being a...

Encryption is hard. When NSA leaker Edward Snowden wanted to communicate with journalist Glenn Greenwald via encrypted email, Greenwald couldn’t figure out the venerable crypto program PGP even after Snowden made a 12-minute tutorial video. Nad...

Master spy blabbermouth Edward Snowden defended his NSA whistleblowing actions to the Council of Europe today. He told the human rights' parliamentary assembly in Strasbourg, via video link from Moscow, that he had a "personal duty to country, go...

The British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters(GCHQ) maintains three internet spying and tapping undersea cables in the Middle East, this is leaked by NSA leaker Mr.Edward Snowden.  According to The Register, the secret Br...

General Keith Alexander, told the Australian Financial Review that Russia would be looking to capitalize on the fact that Snowden's leaks had been so disruptive and damaging to the US. Alexander said, "I think he is now being manipulated by Russi...

“Big things are happening in Denmark.” With this Hamletic line, Edward Snowden opens a letter in the Danish newspaper Berlingske. The former NSA contractor and whistleblower weighed in on what the Scandinavian press has dubbed “Se og Hør-gate” (D...

According to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked latest compilation of national security saying NSA of US impersonated Facebook to try to dupe Internets into downloading malicious code in an attempt to install malware on hundreds and thous...

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden shared some privacy tips for Encrypt your hard drive, use plug-ins for your browser that prevent organizations or companies from tracking you online, and cover your tracks with Tor, an online network that promi...

Edward Snowden used Normal software to gain access to at least 1.7 million secret files, The NewYork Times reported, quoting senior intelligence officials investigating the breach. The New York Times Sunday quoted a senior US intelligence officia...