Edward Snowden

The House is poised to take the first significant step to change the National Security Agency's bulk collection of American phone records, a compromise bill that is displeasing many civil liberties activists.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says his "mission's already accomplished" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies.

Canadian authorities allowed the National Security Agency to spy in the country during the G8 and G20 summits in Ontario in 2010, CBC News reported late Wednesday, citing documents shared by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The National Security Agency has overstepped its authority and broken privacy rules thousands of times every year since being given new surveillance powers by Congress in 2008, The Washington Post reported, citing an internal audit and other secret documents.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's father says he has secured a visa to visit his son in Russia.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has left a transit zone of a Moscow airport and entered Russia after authorities granted him a temporary asylum, his lawyer said Thursday.

As hearings continue in Washington examining government spying, a New Jersey lawmaker is looking to crack down on 'Big Brother' techniques in the Garden State.

The head of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee says Edward Snowden has accepted Venezuela's offer of political asylum.

A pair of South American countries are offering asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

Another country has rejected Edward Snowden's request for political asylum.