The United States government and one of the country's largest telecom carriers are once again embroiled in a mass surveillance controversy ... Hemisphere project, AT&T receives "indirect ...

Having been caught up in the surveillance controversy, they are braced for battle. NPR's Tom Gjelten dubs that battle the NSA versus the techs. TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: Here's the conflict.

Sen. Ron Wyden said in a letter that one U.S. phone carrier turned over Senate data to law enforcement without notifying the ...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said Wednesday that three major phone carriers failed to establish systems to notify offices about ...

Documents reviewed by Wired have revealed details of a secret call surveillance program run by the US government with the help of AT&T. Millions of Americans have been spied on by law enforcement ...

The more significant public debate is about government surveillance practices, AT&T; said, and noted it and other carriers are obliged to comply with court orders. AT&T; also said it faces at ...

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, in a privacy suit against AT&T; Inc. involving surveillance by the National Security Agency, rejected the government’s motion that the case be ...

The days of simple law-enforcement wiretaps for telephone surveillance are gone. Today’s digital networks break conversations into packets for transmission and reassembly at their destination ...

It was a point that he reiterated with me when we sat down the day after the speech, as we dissected several angles of the government surveillance controversy. Microsoft has done its part to remain as ...