PRIVACY

German ISPs are taking action to protect consumer privacy.

The White House is reaching out to tech and privacy groups over the NSA's secret programs. But the meetings are off the record.

A photographer secretly "shot" his neighbors with a telephoto lens, claiming it was art. They didn’t agree, but a New York judge did.

Despite strict rules governing the phone metadata program, the NSA is able to analyze huge quantities of phone records whenever it wants.

The Justice Department is set to finish a declassification review by Sept. 12.

Websites that dig up censored content blocked by China's Great Firewall mostly end up being blocked as well.

Glenn Greenwald warns that low-level NSA employees can look at anyone's emails, phone calls and messages.

A wayward kestrel was released after Turkish officials found he wasn't bugged by Israel.

Pay-TV providers like Verizon and tech giants like Microsoft are developing devices that can monitor our behaviors as we watch TV and play games.

The $950 million in tax payments comes under a deal signed between Swiss, UK, and Austrian governments.

A new oversight board has proposed FOIA procedures that limit access to government records -- but the rules aren't final yet.

A pilot program to track students via RFID-enabled badges is being scrapped in San Antonio after they had no effect on attendance.

A 1979 case about a Baltimore thief could ultimately determine the fate of government metadata collection.

A Japanese ministry accidentally leaked private information by forgetting to change the privacy settings on a Google Group.

Here are five key components of the FISA Accountability And Privacy Protection Act Of 2013 you should know about.

The recent NSA surveillance scandal signals a major downside to online tracking. Could private search engines be the answer?

Google has until July 16 to destroy data it discovered it had harvested from its mapping endeavors.

The little-known agency was set up to monitor national security decisions and raise flags if the government infringes on privacy and civil liberties.

France's data-protection regulator is leading a European drive to force Google to change its all-encompassing privacy policy.

That's the question that the bureau has declined to answer specifically. On Tuesday, the director of the FBI named one case.

The Swiss Parliament formally rejected a U.S.-led effort for more information on wealthy American clients of secretive Swiss banks.