5 Things To Know About The NSA's Surveillance Activities : Parallels Leaks by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, revealed the agency was monitoring vast amounts of ...

Adopted under the 2008 FISA act, 702 surveillance allows the NSA to legally monitor emails and phone calls of foreign nationals outside of the US – but the controversial statute could expire in ...

To store and process the billions of messages sucked up by its worldwide surveillance network (totaling 97 billion items for March alone), the NSA is employing 11,000 workers to build a $1.6 ...

Those who cheered when the Patriot Act expired because it put an end to the NSA's mass surveillance should hold their celebration for 180 more days. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ...

NSA Reportedly Can Monitor 100,000 Computers Worldwide : The Two-Way Circuit boards and USB cards were implanted surreptitiously in the computers when they were shipped overseas from the ...

In The Wall Street Journal, L. Gordon Crovitz writes that a FISA court ruling, recently made public, shows how surveillance is limited and legal.

HOMELAND: In "Homeland," surveillance is usually extra-legal, low-tech, and dubiously useful. It involves a couple of guys sitting in a van filled with dinky little screens, after manually rigging ...

Former official: Agency could get to 30 percent of metadata, now up to 100. — -- One of the reforms designed to rein in the surveillance authorities of the National Security Agency has ...

Congress gave final approval Tuesday to the most sweeping rollback of government surveillance powers in the post-Sept. 11 era, clearing the way for a new program that bans the National Security ...

The 338-88 vote to approve the bipartisan USA Freedom Act was an effort by lawmakers to rein in NSA surveillance while renewing key sections of the sweeping Patriot Act anti-terrorism law ...

As part of this surveillance, the NSA collects countless international communications involving Americans and scans virtually all international communications for terms believed to be associated with ...

The NSA then has until 8:00 p.m. to cancel the shutdown. At that point, it is irreversible. Once the database is shut down, it would take an entire day to restart the system.