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The revelations began Wednesday, when a British newspaper, the Guardian, published a top secret order from an intelligence court that required Verizon Business Network Services to give telephone records detailing the time, location and telephone …

The Guardian reported Saturday that it had obtained top-secret documents detailing an NSA tool, called Boundless Informant, that maps the information it collects from computer and telephone networks by country. The paper said the documents show NSA …

… a 'Digital Network Exploitation Analyst' appeared Thursday on the National Security Agency's job-opening Twitter feed, just as the cyber spy directorate was caught up in an international scandal involving snooping on millions of telephone, email …

Maryland—a case involving an automobile theft—the Supreme Court said that it was not a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches, for the government to ask a phone company to install a “pen register” to track the …

That's not clear (it's probably a top secret), but I suspect it's because the NSA was setup to only deal with foreign intelligence so the FBI had to end run that little jurisdictional problem. The top secret order was titled "IN RE APPLICATION OF THE …

A group of MPs has lambasted the government for risking national security by failing to monitor the widespread use of Chinese equipment in Britain's phone and broadband networks. In a damning report into the potential threats posed by the Chinese …

It does not authorize snooping into the content of phone calls. But with millions of phone records in hand, the NSA's computers can analyze them for patterns, spot unusual behavior and identify "communities of interest" — networks of people in contact …

In 2006, a retired AT&T technician revealed that the company, on behalf of the NSA, had three years earlier installed wiretapping equipment in a secret room in a major telephone–network switching facility in San Francisco. The technician said he …

The Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman, Evan Perez and Janet Hook: “U.S. Collects Vast Data Trove“ The National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web …