Surveillance

New York Magazine writer Kevin Roose spent a day trying to live completely surveillance-free.

The biggest difference between the two? This year Defcon organizers disinvited the Feds in the wake of NSA surveillance revelations. While Black Hat's keynote speaker will be none other than NSA Director General Keith Alexander.

The House narrowly defeated an amendment that would have ended funding for mass collection of phone records and other data by the NSA.

Retail stores have moved beyond Internet cookies to physical tracking, what's the big deal?

The American Civil Liberties Union says it has found another instance of Americans being tracked by the government. Not online, but on the road through license plate tracking.

Edward Snowden is likely headed to Latin America, where several countries have offered him asylum. What is the economic situation in each of these countries?

All police have to do is ask, and the post office will tell them what kind of mail you've been receiving.

A multi-billion dollar free trade deal between the U.S. and Europe could be in jeopardy following the latest U.S. spying revelations.

For the most part, strong encryption technology of our e-mails, texts, and phone calls has been the domain of the powerful and the paranoid. But that's starting to change.

FBI Director Robert Mueller says the FBI uses drones domestically, though rarely. He is calling for more discussion on drone use, while the FBI proceeds.