The NSA director has told senators that preventing his spy agency from collecting metadata about citizens would undermine its surveillance activities.

American whistleblower Edward Snowden has been awarded a prize for his work on "right of privacy."

The inadequate judicial oversight of NSA spying programs is leading the US toward a “type of fascist state,” says a former intelligence linguist.

New documents provided by Edward Snowden show AT&T handed over billions of emails and online interactions to a US spy agency.

Rand Paul blasts Chris Christie for urging the government to increase the powers of US intelligence agencies during the first Republican presidential debate.

Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has revealed that the US National Security Agency has spied on the Japanese government and major companies. The leaked documents show that the NSA has been snooping on a number of Japanese ministries and offices. WikiLeaks has published a list of at least 35 institutions and officials targeted by the US espionage program. According to the whistleblower website, internal Japanese discussions on international trade and climate change policy have also been wiretapped. The NSA has been under fire for its mass surveillance programs since its former contractor Edward Snowden began leaking documents in 2013.

The newly published documents by whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks, list top secret targets in Japan that Washington has been spying on.

The UK-based watchdog group Privacy International says Pakistan's spy agency, ISI, is building a mass surveillance system.

The US should hang NSA leaker Edward Snowden if he falls into the government’s hands, according to a former GOP senator.

The United States has sought to undermine South American governments that reject Washington’s colonial policies for decades.