Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Does the NSA really operate a vast database that allows its analysts to sift through millions of records showing nearly everything a user does on the Internet, as was recently reported? Yes, and ...

New documents published in The Guardian reveal that the NSA can snoop on you in real time–and that the agency is building a giant keyword-based database of everything connected to the Internet, ...

An NSA system called XKeyscore gives the US intelligence community full access to your email, IMs, browsing history, and social media activity. To access almost everything that you do online, all an ...

Edward Snowden has said that he still has more information about the NSA than what he's already leaked, and we're now getting a look at another big piece of that. According to a new set of documents ...

The National Security Agency never provided its historical legal analyses of its XKeyscore surveillance system, according to a member of the independent oversight ...

It looks like conspiracy theorists aren't so crazy after all, with the last couple of weeks proving them more and more right. Well, now we're getting told about yet another NSA spy program: XKeyscore.

You’ve never heard of XKeyscore, but it definitely knows you. The National Security Agency’s top-secret program essentially makes available everything you’ve ever done on the Internet — browsing ...

NSA documents leaked to the Guardian in 2013 described a covert program called XKeyscore, which involved a searchable database for intelligence analysts to scan intercepted data. Now, new documents ...

The Wikimedia Foundation has announced it will soon be switching its services over to the secure–i.e., unsnoopable–HTTPS protocol. It’s a move that’s been planned for a while, but the foundation has ...

Germany's spies seriously violated the country's laws multiple times, according to a secret report from its federal data protection commissioner Andrea Voßhoff. The legal analysis, leaked to ...

Further leaks have revealed an NSA project called XKeyscore that, with a few keystrokes, can give a data analyst access to nearly everything a user does on the Internet – from chat sessions to email ...