President Obama said "nobody is listening to your telephone calls," even though the National Security Agency could actually track you from cellphone metadata. Well, the latest from the Edward Snowden ...

Earlier this week, Mike Masnick of Techdirt complained that anyone who dismisses the NSA's collection of metadata around people's phone calls and emails (as revealed in the Snowden Leaks) "because ...

Metadata associated with electronic documents — such as the “to” and “from” fields in e-mails — is a public record subject to disclosure, Washington’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The 5-4 ruling ...

As documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden previously showed, the NSA’s tracking of where and when Americans’ sent emails dates back to the Bush administration. The spying ...

If this NSA data-snooping thing has you wondering about how much can be learned from your email metadata, there's an easy — and safe — way to find out. A new public Web application from the MIT Media ...

Metadata associated with electronic documents – such as the “to” and “from” fields in e-mails – is a public record subject to disclosure, Washington’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The 5-4 ruling ...

A lot of people are freaked out by the idea that the NSA has for years been collecting data from ordinary Americans' email accounts. Nobody likes the idea of the feds combing through their email. But ...

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President Obama said "nobody is listening to your telephone calls," even though the National Security Agency could actually track you from cellphone metadata. Well, the latest from the Edward Snowden ...