After days of hide and seek, in between which they went to court, the Department of State Services, DSS, has…
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The Federal Government, yesterday, asked the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to revoke the bail it granted the…
The office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) has issued a security alert on the likelihood of Boko Haram attack…
Immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has refuted claims that he maltreated President Muhammadu Buhari when…
Learning about Linux is not a crime—but don’t tell the NSA that. A story published in German on Tagesschau, and…
Over the past year, as the Snowden revelations have rolled out, the government and its apologists have developed a set…
This week, President Barack Obama has outlined his proposal to put a stop to the bulk collection of phone metadata. According to a post on the Verge, the president’s proposal will ultimately end the NSA’s routine collection of metadata, and instead…
Fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Tuesday he sees a “turning point” in the surveillance reform plans unveiled by the White House and Congress. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked documents which…
The deputy head of the NSA spying agency accused fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Thursday of displaying “amazing arrogance” in revealing US eavesdropping techniques. NSA deputy director Richard Ledgett argued that Snowden, hailed…
Anger at the United States Government and the NSA’s surveillance practices hasn’t diminished much since former contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents last summer. Today, over 5,000 companies and organizations like Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr, the…
BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s foreign minister welcomed President Obama’s official pledge to curb the powers of the National Security Agency (NSA) on Friday. But a quiet unease lingers across Berlin and many other European capitals. “President Obama…
You know what they say about the best-laid plans. We collected our top stories of the week this past Thursday so that we could complete the companion video by our Sunday deadline (it’ll be up a bit later this afternoon), and Friday wound up giving…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday dismissed President Barack Obama’s proposals to curb the reach of the National Security Agency (NSA), saying they would change very little. In a speech intended to quell the furor over surveillance programs…
In a speech earlier this morning from the Justice Department, President Obama discussed government surveillance in a speech that was as much a defense of the NSA’s activities as it was a response to growing discomfort with the agency’s surveillance…
President Barack Obama will Friday announce plans to stop the National Security Agency hoarding hundreds of millions of telephone call records, among reforms to US surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden. A senior US official, speaking ahead…
The document collection leaked by Edward Snowden continues to bear fruit; a collaborative investigation between The Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News has revealed that the U.S. government’s National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting millions…
BERLIN, Germany — On Facebook, lying is an unfriending offense. Geopolitics may be slightly more complicated. So after the news that the United States is backtracking on a promise not to spy on its ally by the National Security Agency (NSA), will…
The deluge of details regarding the NSA’s surveillance tactics shows no sign of abating, as yet another document leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden has made its way into the pages of the New York Times. According to the report, the NSA has…
Whenever NSA overreach is discussed, manyâÂÂeven the NSAâÂÂs biggest advocatesâÂÂrefer back to J. Edgar Hoover’s illegal FBI domestic surveillance program in the 1960s and 70s as the prime example of an out-of-control intelligence agency and…
Last week, press reports revealed more about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) elite hacking unit, the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO). The press also helped the public grasp other NSA activities, like how it’s weakening encryption. All…