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FBI: 2 in custody, 1 injured after vehicle tried to enter NSA complex

TwopeoplewereinfederalcustodyWednesday,andathirdpersonwasrecoveringfrominjuriesafterauthoritiessaidthedriverofarentedsportutilityvehicletriedtoenterasecuredarea

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Suspect injured, SUV stopped after shooting at NSA gate

PolicerespondedtoashootingWednesdayoutsidetheNationalSecurityAgencycampusatFortMeade,whereauthoritiessurroundedahandcuffedmanafterablackSUVranintoabarrier.FortM

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NSA sent coded messages through Twitter

Spyagencieshavealonghistoryofusingpublicoutletstodeliversecretmessages,suchasnumbersstationsorcrypticclassifiedads.Now,however,they'veadaptedtotheinternetera.Bo

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Wikimedia’s lawsuit against the NSA is back

TheACLUandtheWikimediaFoundationcanmoveforwardwithaninternetsurveillancelawsuitagainsttheNSAandDepartmentofJustice,anappealscourthasruled.Theruling,publishedtod

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'Shadow Brokers' threaten to release more hacking tools in June

Anexploitthatthe"WannaCry"malwareusedtoencryptcomputersworldwidefirstappearedinaleakfrom"TheShadowBrokers,"agroupthatclaimstohavestolenanumberoftoolsfromtheNSA.

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Merkel's office summons U.S. ambassador over spy claims: report

​German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office summoned the U.S. Ambassador to Germany on Thursday to discuss new allegations about National Security Agency (NSA) spying, according to German media reports.

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U.S. spy agency secretly expands warrantless Internet surveillance: report

​The U.S. government has secretly expanded the National Security Agency's warrantless Internet surveillance to search for evidence of what it called "malicious cyberactivity," The New York Times reported Thursday, citing classified documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

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U.S. Senate passes spy agency's surveillance reform bill

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed the USA Freedom Act, a domestic surveillance reform bill that would extend the bulk phone metadata collection program of the National Security Agency (NSA) for another six months, after which the practice will be ended.

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Expiration of NSA's spying program looms as GOP infighting continues

​As the Capitol Hill is stumbling towards the imminent deadline on a reform bill on the U. S. spy agency's bulk phone metadata collection program, Republican infighting again steals the limelight.

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U.S. House passes surveillance reform bill aimed to stop massive phone call harvests

​U.S. House on Wednesday passed a surveillance reform bill that would terminate a controversial National Security Agency (NSA) program harvesting information on millions of American phone calls.

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Merkel defends intelligence cooperation in first comments about spying scandal

​German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that her office was willing to cooperate with parliamentary investigators over the international spying scandal, or the so-called BND-NSA affair, at the same time defending Germany's intelligence cooperation with other countries in the fight against terrorism.

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Report slams "unscrupulous" U.S. surveillance over world, China

A Chinese Internet information body has complained of "unscrupulous" surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies over the rest of the world, and called for an immediate cessation of the practice.

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Pentagon chief says U.S. cyberspace force to expand further

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday the cyberspace force at U.S. Cyber Command will grow to more than 6,000 by the year 2016.

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Obama unveils proposal to change NSA domestic phone surveillance program

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled his proposal to change the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance program that has collected Americans' phone metadata in bulk, offering support to let telephone companies hold the data.

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Snowden calls for public oversight of U.S. surveillance practices

Speaking via teleconference, former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden on Monday called for more public oversight of the U.S. secret surveillance practices and better online security measures to protect the public.

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U.S. gov't seeks keeping NSA phone records longer: report

The Obama administration has asked a special court for permission to hold on to National Security Agency (NSA) phone records for longer than five years, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, describing it as "an unintended consequence of lawsuits seeking to stop the data- surveillance program.

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U.S. lawmaker sues Obama over NSA data collection

A U.S. lawmaker on Wednesday officially filed his class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration over National Security Agency (NSA) data collection, joining with two prominent tea party leaders to make the announcement.