Trump's planned expansion of his travel ban is part of a broader authoritarian Big Data grab.

How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero

As a researcher in Ceausescu’s Romania, Katherine Verdery did not suspect how profoundly the secret police would interfere in her life.

In attempting to both appease the intelligence community and ostensibly roll back its powers, lawmakers are making a mockery of the reform effort.

Joshua Reeves’s “Citizen Spies” looks at citizens, surveillance, and how the police state conscripts us all.

Drone technology has birthed a new way of seeing ourselves and the world—and enabled us to surveil anyone or anything, without any legal process.

Rand Paul smells a political opportunity in the president's wiretapping conspiracy theory about Obama. The senator is being foolish and naive.

Photographer Mike Osborne watches the people who watch us.

The choice is simple: pardon him, or abandon him to the mercy of Trump.

What do John Le Carré's classic espionage novels mean in the age of surveillance?

No matter who prevails, your privacy is endangered.

Will new DNA tests help convict violent offenders or curb privacy?