Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras filed a lawsuit on Monday against the U.S. government for allegedly subjecting her to years of targeted harassment and searches by U.S. security agents.
During a tech-oriented show at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas on Monday, whistleblower fugitive Edward Snowden made a video appearance and gave an hour-long talk denouncing the U.S. government's surveillance policies.
The National Security Agency is working with the Joint Special Operations Command's High Value Targeting task force to track targets using their cellphones and blow them away using drones, according to a new report.
After ex-contractor Edward Snowden's leaks sparked months of revelations about the National Security Agency's collection of U.S. phone records, as well as a breadth of other sweeping NSA surveillance programs, President Barack Obama spoke on Friday about changes he plans to make to the agency's mass data collection policies.
Score another one for privacy: a federal judge has ruled that the once-secret collections of phone records -- which were all revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden -- is unconstitutional.
