Since Americans learned in June of last year that the National Security Agency collects the telephone “metadata” of virtually every phone call within the United States, little has changed in what will ...

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” the adage goes. But for the sunset of Patriot Act authorities later this year—including Section 215, a controversial provision that allows the National Security ...

Many Americans don’t know quite what to make of the government harvesting reams of “metadata” from our telephone calls. For a sizeable proportion of the over-30 population, the very term “metadata” ...

Things keep looking worse for the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ telephone metadata, a program found this week to be illegal and ...