The US has devolved into a “soft-core totalitarian dictatorship” and other nations should disassociate from it, an activist and radio host says.

The Chinese navy has warned a US surveillance plane flying over disputed islands in the South China Sea.

India becomes the first country to equip a city’s police force with weaponized drones for crowd control.

Macedonia’s opposition leader accuses the government of widespread wiretapping.

A report says German investigators intercepted nearly 28,000 phone and internet communications in 2013.

UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal has declared that the British intelligence acted unlawfully in accessing millions of people’s personal information collected by the United States’ spy agnecy NSA. The ruling has now raised questions about the legality of intelligence-sharing operations between London and Washington. Amina Taylor reports from London.

German foreign intelligence agency gathers 220 million pieces of metadata from foreign phone calls and text messages daily, relaying them to the US.