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Groups launch privacy suit against UK spy agency

Three organizations in Britain have filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights, accusing their country's eavesdropping agency of using its online surveillance programs to violate the privacy of millions of citizens. English PEN, Big Brother Watch and the Open Rights Group claim that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, ...

NSA reveals more about its spying efforts at home

Top U.S. intelligence officials are revealing more about their spying in an effort to defend the National Security Agency from charges that it has invaded the privacy of Americans on a mass scale. Yet the latest disclosure — the NSA tried to track Americans' cellphone locations — has only added ...

National Intelligence Director James Clapper, left, accompanied by National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. U.S. intelligence officials say the government shutdown is seriously damaging the intelligence community’s ability to guard against threats. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

NSA chief admits testing US cellphone tracking

National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander revealed Wednesday that his spy agency once tested whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations, in addition to its practice of sweeping broad information about calls made. Alexander and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on ...

Gov't: Court should not allow disclosure

A federal court should not permit five leading Internet companies to reveal how often they are ordered to turn over information about their customers in national security investigations, the government argued in papers released Wednesday. In a filing with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the government said that allowing the ...

Snowden among finalists for EU human rights prize

U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is among three finalists for the European Union's top human rights prize. European lawmakers on Monday narrowed down the list of nominees for the prestigious 50,000 euro ($65,000) award to Snowden, Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, and imprisoned dissidents from Belarus. The pro-environment Greens' caucus said ...

Journalist Glenn Greenwald talks during a panel following the screening of the "Dirty Wars" documentary at the Rio Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Greenwald, who has thousands of leaked National Security Archive documents, participated on a panel with American journalist Jeremy Scahill following the screening of the documentary "Dirty Wars" based on his book by the same name about covert operations. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Glenn Greenwald working on new NSA revelations

Two American journalists known for their investigations of the United States' government said Saturday they've teamed up to report on the National Security Agency's role in what one called a "U.S. assassination program." The journalists provided no evidence of the purported U.S. program at the news conference, nor details of ...

Report: NSA maps out a person's social connections

For almost three years the National Security Agency has been tapping the data it collects to map out some Americans' social connections, allowing the government to identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, The New York times reported. Citing documents provided by ...

Senators: Limit NSA snooping into US phone records

Leading senators have unveiled proposed changes to the way the National Security Agency gathers U.S. records in its hunt for overseas terrorists or spying targets. And top intelligence officials say they will cooperate with the proposed overhaul to try to win back public trust following disclosures about the NSA's extensive ...

From left, National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Deputy Attorney General James Cole are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) call records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Official sidesteps queries on cellphone locations

The head of the National Security Agency sidestepped questions Thursday from a senator about whether the NSA has ever used Americans cellphone signals to collect information on their whereabouts that would allow tracking of the movements of individual callers. Asked twice by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., if NSA had ever ...

Devin Wenig,president of eBay marketplaces speaks at a news conference in Berlin,Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Online retail platform eBay says it does not share data it collects on its customers with the US. National Security Agency.NSA leaker Edward Snowden has suggested that major web companies have set up systems to help the NSA monitor online communications to protect against terrorism. California-based eBay Inc wasn’t named in documents Snowden provided to several newspapers but German privacy commissioner Peter Schaar said last month he was certain that information collected on eBay users ended up with the NSA. The president of eBay Marketplaces, Devin Wenig, said Thursday “we don’t share our customer data” and “we don’t believe the NSA has come near our data.” (AP Photo/Frank Jordans)

eBay: We don't share customer data with NSA

Online retail giant eBay believes offering each shopper a unique store tailored to their personal tastes and interests is the future of the $10 trillion global commerce market. But even as eBay asks users to tell them what they "love" so it can offer them what they "need," the California-based ...

FILE - This June 6, 2013, file photo shows a sign outside the National Security Administration campus in Fort Meade, Md. Spying by the National Security Agency has cost the United States economically and angered allies, a bipartisan group of senators said Sept. 25, in unveiling legislation that would end the collection of millions of Americans' phone records and data on Internet usage. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Senators push bill to end phone record collection

Spying by the National Security Agency has cost the United States economically and angered allies, a bipartisan group of senators said Wednesday in unveiling legislation that would end the collection of millions of Americans' phone records and data on Internet usage. Three Democrats — Oregon's Ron Wyden, Mark Udall of ...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia makes gestures as he speaks at the Northern Virginia Technology Council's (NVTC) Titans breakfast gathering in McLean, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. Scalia was the featured speaker at the speaker series sponsored by the Council. The 77-year-old justice, currently the longest serving on the nine-member court, is scheduled to discuss the art of persuasion as well as major constitutional issues. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Scalia expects NSA program to end up in court

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Wednesday that the courts ultimately will have to determine the legality of surveillance programs by the National Security Agency. And he's not sure that's a good thing in an era of complex security threats against the United States. Scalia told the Northern Virginia Technology ...

Amid fear, feds pledge privacy for Idaho exchange

Federal officials insisted Wednesday that people seeking coverage via Idaho's online health insurance exchange starting next week shouldn't fear for their privacy, despite last-minute concerns among foes of President Barack Obama's health overhaul that more should be done to protect personal information. The Idaho exchange's 19-member board will vote Monday ...

Why we shouldn't trust our own NSA

Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency, was on Capitol Hill today to complain about sensationalized media coverage and to try to justify his agency's immense data-collection efforts as necessary to fend off terrorism. He also promised that if and when his agency does something wrong, it ...

EU lawmakers call for end of US bank data deal

Several European lawmakers are seeking to end an agreement that grants U.S. authorities access to bank data for terrorism-related investigations because of Washington's surveillance programs. Three lawmakers said Tuesday that leaks by Edward Snowden alleging that the U.S. National Security Agency targeted a Belgium-based system of international bank transfers, known ...

Report: Britain hacked Belgian telecom operator

A news magazine is citing documents leaked by Edward Snowden as saying that Britain's spy services were behind a sophisticated cyber-espionage scheme targeting Belgium's main phone operator. Germany's Der Spiegel reported Friday that classified documents obtained from Snowden indicate Britain's GCHQ signals intelligence agency was behind the spying attack on ...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, right, and Foreign Minister Elias Jaua, acknowledge well-wishers from the balcony of the Foreign Ministry after meeting with South Africa's foreign minister, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Jaua said Thursday that the United States has prohibited a planned flight by Maduro from passing through U.S. airspace over Puerto Rico. The foreign minister said that the flight had been scheduled to pass over the U.S. territory on Friday on its way to China. He characterized the U.S. action as an "aggression." (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela: US banned presidential overflight

Venezuela complained Thursday that Washington had barred President Nicolas Maduro from flying through U.S. airspace and prohibited a general from later accompanying him to the United Nations. Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said prohibiting the flight scheduled to pass over Puerto Rico on Friday as Maduro headed to China amounted to ...

Colette Turner, left, closes her eyes while observing a moment of silence during a candlelight vigil in honor of Richard Michael Ridgell at Jaycee Park in Westminster, Md. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Ridgell was killed in Monday's shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington. (AP Photo/Carroll County Times, Dave Munch)

How can red flags be missed like Navy shooter's?

The government's sprawling system of background checks and security clearances is so unreliable it's virtually impossible to adequately investigate the nearly 5 million Americans who have them and make sure they can be trusted with access to military and sensitive civilian buildings, an Associated Press review found. Case after case ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel signs autographs during a Christian Democratic election campaign event in Ribnitz-Damgarten at the Baltic sea, northern Germany, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Merkel runs for a third term in Germany's general election on Sunday, Sept. 22. (AP Photo/dpa, Bernd Wuestneck)

What's at stake in Germany's election

Some of the main issues in Sunday's German election: ___ THE ECONOMY: To tax or not to tax? Chancellor Angela Merkel's opponents want to raise income tax rate for top earners to 49 from 42 percent, a change they say is needed to finance investment in education, infrastructure and other ...

A police boat patrols near the scene of a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, in Washington. At least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Correction: Navy Yard Shooting story

In some stories that moved Sept. 16 and Sept. 17 about the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the gunman, Aaron Alexis, carried an AR-15. That information was based on federal law enforcement officials who were relying on initial descriptions from the scene and ...

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