US phone companies refuse to store data for NSA

Last Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 19:27

President Barack Obama`s plan to curb the National Security Agency `s mass storage of phone data is already facing resistance.

Courtney Love decides to be friends with exes

Last Updated: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 20:13

Singer Courtney Love says her New Year`s resolution is to make peace with her ex-lovers.

Snowden warns of loss of privacy in Christmas message

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 01:56

Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed details of electronic surveillance by American and British spy services, warned of the dangers posed by a loss of privacy in a message broadcast to Britain on Christmas Day.

Snowden urges end to mass surveillance in UK Christmas message

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 22:59

US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden will call on citizens to work together to end mass surveillance when he delivers a Christmas Day broadcast to Britain, the Channel 4 television network said.

Mission accomplished, says Snowden - Washington Post

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 12:52

Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed extensive details of global electronic surveillance by the US spy agency, said in an interview published on Tuesday that he has accomplished what he set out to do.

NSA spied on Israel, EU official, aid groups: Report

Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 01:10

US and British spy agencies eavesdropped on an Israeli prime minister, energy firms, aid agencies and an EU official overseeing anti-trust cases, a media report said on Friday.

Snowden revelations may lead to spying curbs: Experts

Last Updated: Friday, December 20, 2013, 18:22

The most serious rebuke to the NSA came Wednesday from a panel of establishment figures named by the White House to review the surveillance operations that mushroomed after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

US spy panel wants duplicate oversight board replaced

Last Updated: Friday, December 20, 2013, 15:22

President Barack Obama have been studying how the White House should change or limit the National Security Agency`s surveillance programs.

`Stripping NSA of its powers might harm its effectiveness`

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 14:35

Michael Hayden, who was the NSA chief till 2005, told in an interview to the BBC that he supported the transparency but the new curbs, if implemented would make the spying operations tougher.

White House review panel proposes curbs on some NSA programs

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 10:01

A White House-appointed panel proposed curbs on some key National Security Agency surveillance operations, recommending limits on a program to collect records of billions of telephone calls and new tests before Washington spies on foreign leaders.

Obama to release review panel report into NSA spy sweeps

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 03:58

The White House will release a review on Wednesday calling for reforms in National Security Agency spying sweeps, exposed by Edward Snowden, which have angered US allies and raised legal and privacy concerns.

Obama names gay tennis legend on Olympic delegation

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 19:32

President Barack Obama Tuesday named openly gay tennis legend Billie Jean King on the US delegation to the Winter Olympics in Sochi amid a storm over a Russian law targeting homosexuals.