American Intelligence And Surveillance

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  OpenAI CEO to Testify Before US Senate Panel Next Week on Concerns Regarding AI Regulations

  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will make his first appearance before a Senate panel next week as the US Congress grapples with how best to regulate artificial intelligence as the technology becomes more powerful and widespread. Altman will testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology & the Law on Tuesday on what laws might be need...

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  National Security Agency Triples Collection Of Phone Records in United States

  The US National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a US intelligence agency report released on Friday said.

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  Experimental US Drone Sets Flight Record

  A US experimental drone has set a record for the longest continuous flight of a craft of its size, staying in the air for three days, the International Aeronautical Federation said.

• Stop Global Cyber Espionage, China to US

  Hitting out at US for indicting five of its military personnel for cyber espionage, China today complained of "unscrupulous" surveillance by American intelligence agencies over the rest of the world, and called for an immediate cessation of the practice.

• White House sees need for 'constraints' on NSA spying

  The White House moved on Monday to reassure US allies and Americans concerned about the sweeping nature of the National Security Agency's surveillance practices by acknowledging that more constraints are needed to ensure that privacy rights are protected.

• US directs agents to cover up programme used to investigate Americans

  A secretive US Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

• Edward Snowden: Bolivia threatens to close US embassy

  Bolivia's president threatened on Thursday to close the US embassy as leftist Latin American leaders joined him in blasting Europe and the United States after his plane was rerouted amid suspicions US fugitive Edward Snowden was aboard.

• Cyber scrutiny, not snooping says Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid of US surveillance

  A day after Europe's furious reaction to reports that the US spied on more than 30 embassies and diplomatic missions of its allies including India, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said that America's surveillance programme of phone logs and Internet "is not snooping."

• Spy sweeps test Barack Obama's rock star status in Europe

  Explosive revelations about US phone and Internet surveillance programs will challenge President Barack Obama's popularity and moral authority when he lands in Europe on Monday.

• India raises surveillance issue with US; seeks more info

  India has taken up with the US the reports that it was the fifth most tracked country by the American intelligence using a secret data-mining programme to monitor worldwide internet data and sought further details in this regard.

• Leak of NSA programs tests US, China ties

  A day after the presidents of China and the United States ended their first summit, pledges of cooperation by the two leaders faced an early test from an unexpected quarter - an American intelligence contractor was leaking highly sensitive US surveillance programs from his hiding place in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong.