The British Government Communications Headquarters maintains taps on fiber optic systems in the United Kingdom, according to the latest Guardian report from the Edward Snowden leaks. The scale of the ...

Lawyers for the group Privacy International have written to the chief executives of the telecoms companies, which were identified last week by the German paper ...

The term, "information superhighway" has always been insufficient to describe the Internet. In reality, the Web is a global communication space containing the private information of a large part of ...

Let’s agree, for the sake of argument, that the National Security Agency’s various data-gathering activities in the United States are unquestionably constitutional, legitimate and necessary. Let’s ...

Revelations about the extent of the US government's ability to snoop on the private data of ordinary people have rocked the world. The Prism programme, which former National Security Agency (NSA) ...

Amidst all the media excitement over Ed Snowden’s dramatic flight from Hong Kong to Moscow, one story that slipped under the radar at the end of last week relates how the UK’s version of the NSA, the ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. 600 million 'telephone events' observed each day Tempora, the report says, is on a scale larger than any known ...

I received a letter last week from a very senior civil servant warning me not to reveal in this column any "privileged information" acquired as a minister. But I have a revelation of another kind to ...

Some of the world's leading telecoms firms, including BT and Vodafone, are secretly collaborating with Britain's spy agency GCHQ, and are passing on details of their customers' phone calls, email ...

The British Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, maintains taps on fiber optic systems in the United Kingdom, according to the latest Guardian report from the Edward Snowden leaks. The ...