The future of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection program is in serious doubt, which raises the questions: how useful is it to the intelligence community, and what will they do if it goes away? Update: ...

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” the adage goes. But for the sunset of Patriot Act authorities later this year—including Section 215, a controversial provision that allows the National Security ...

Trump’s 21-Point Plan Misses the Only Point That Matters The Tricky Politics of Government Shutdowns Marjorie Taylor Greene Earns Her Strange New Respect the Old-Fashioned Way America’s Young ...

A leaked NSA newsletter published Wednesday highlights the collection of phone metadata as one of the agency's "most useful tools." The document — which was leaked by Edward Snowden and published by ...

The government's widespread collection of phone metadata is probably unconstitutional, a district judge ruled this week. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon granted the plaintiffs' request for an ...

Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied Larry Klayman's emergency petition for rehearing en banc of the appeals court's decision to stay a lower court injunction against the ...

The USA FREEDOM Act as it stands will make Americans less safe while contributing little or nothing to their privacy. The bulk collection program the bill abolishes grew from a very real intelligence ...

A new paper published Monday by the New America Foundation demonstrably destroys the US government claim that bulk metadata collection is useful. (Three US senators made the same claim back in ...