FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2008, file photo President Bush waves after signing a 15-day extension of the Protect America Act after a speech in Las Vegas. Sternly prodding Congress, Bush told lawmakers ...

President Obama's firm defense of the National Security Agency's "domestic" surveillance program on Friday should calm some of the more extravagant fears provoked by public disclosure of its existence ...

There's been lots of justifiable concern about the NSA's newly disclosed PRISM program, which allows the government to conduct electronic surveillance on users of Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and other ...

Publicized information on the U.S. government’s PRISM program has created a new debate on security. The debate is broadly one between national security and individual security, specifically a right to ...

SEATTLE – The disclosure of details about how marquee U.S. tech companies co-operated with PRISM, the clandestine national security program to ferret out terrorists, shows how methodically and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can ...

What makes Prism shine? National Security Agency's megadata collection from Internet pipeline WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp.

WASHINGTON – In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information on customers. Around ...

That program, which has been known for years, copies Internet traffic as it enters and leaves the United States, then routes it to the NSA for analysis. Whether by clever choice or coincidence, Prism ...