The Obama administration and leaders of the House Intelligence Committee will reportedly unveil plans to restrict the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records.
Justice Antonin Scalia told students at Brooklyn Law School on Friday he didn’t want to answer questions about mass surveillance by the National Security Agency.
Criticized for using an employee’s personal Hotmail account as an investigative tool in an internal probe, Microsoft Corp. has promised to handle such situations differently in the future.
An Illinois law that made it a crime to record a conversation without the consent of all the parties has been struck down by the Illinois Supreme Court.
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden help show how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court evolved from its original mission of approving wiretap requests to opinions justifying activities such as the bulk…
Updated and Corrected: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said today that the Central Intelligence Agency may have violated the Fourth Amendment when it searched computers used by the Senate Intelligence Committee…
Updated: It didn’t take long for Massachusetts lawmakers to respond to a state high court decision that found taking upskirt photos isn’t a crime in the state.
Prosecutors in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, are seeking a court order that would force an indicted former municipal judge to provide the password for his personal computer.
A school district in Texas had agreed to pay $77,500 to settle a suit by a former student who says her high school softball coaches outed her as a lesbian…
After news broke this week that a contractor was being sought by a Department of Homeland Security agency to create a computerized national database of information gathered by license-plate reading…
A lawyer who says he was portrayed as a drug-using, toupee-wearing character in the Wolf of Wall Street had filed a lawsuit seeking $25 million for alleged defamation.
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