Electronic Eavesdropping

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  Shooting Outside US National Security Agency Headquarters, No Terror Link Says FBI

  A shooting erupted Wednesday outside the headquarters of the National Security Agency, a secretive intelligence organisation responsible for global US electronic eavesdropping in the suburbs of Washington, the White House confirmed.

• Web is the Command Center for Terror, Says UK Spy Chief

  The new head of Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency says US-based social media have become "command-and-control networks" for terrorists and criminals, and tech companies are in denial about their misuse.

• Spying Revelations Lead to German Encryption Boom

  Revelations about the National Security Agency's electronic eavesdropping capabilities have sparked anger in Germany and a boom in encryption services that make it hard for the most sophisticated spies to read emails, listen to calls or comb through texts.

• US Spy Agency Patents Car Seat for Kids

  Electronic eavesdropping is the National Security Agency's forte, but it seems it also has a special interest in children's car seats, Foreign Policy magazine reported on Wednesday.

• UK Spying Centre Faces Court Action Over 'Illegal' Surveillance

  Britain's electronic eavesdropping centre GCHQ faces legal action from seven internet service providers who accuse it of illegally accessing "potentially millions of people's private communications," campaigners said on Wednesday.

• NSA denies that it eavesdropped on Vatican

  The National Security Agency, responsible for U.S. electronic eavesdropping, said on Wednesday that it does not target the Vatican and called an Italian media report that it had done so "not true".

• Barack Obama orders curbs on NSA spying on UN headquarters: reports

  US President Barack Obama recently ordered the National Security Agency to curtail eavesdropping on the United Nations headquarters in New York as part of a review of US electronic surveillance, according to a US official familiar with the decision.

• US intelligence chiefs open to new surveillance controls

  US lawmakers and intelligence chiefs, facing an outcry over the government's collection of personal communications data, said they were open to measures tightening oversight of the government's sweeping electronic eavesdropping programs.

• Germany nixes Cold War-era surveillance pact with US, Britain

  Germany cancelled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain today, the first concrete action taken by Berlin in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries' alleged electronic eavesdropping operations.

• UK spy agency did not illegally use US data: MPs

  London- Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency GCHQ did not bypass the law by using data from the secret US PRISM surveillance programme exposed by Edward Snowden, lawmakers said on Wednesday.

• British spooks secretly tapping fibre-optic cables: Edward Snowden

  Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency has gained secret access to fibre-optic cables carrying global Internet traffic and telephone calls, rogue US intelligence technician Ed Snowden has told The Guardian.

• Chancellor Angela Merkel, Barack Obama to discuss NSA surveillance program

  Germany's chancellor will raise the issue of NSA's eavesdropping on European communications when she meets President Barack Obama here next week - the latest sign of the international backlash over leaks about America's sweeping electronic surveillance programs.

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  Will India's surveillance plan deter business?

  In the United States, law enforcement and security agencies have raised privacy concerns with a new proposal for electronic eavesdropping powers to track terrorists and criminals and unscramble their encrypted messages. But here in India, government authorities are well beyond...