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WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will Tuesday meet bosses of tech giants including Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter to discuss US spy agency...

WASHINGTON -  [UPDATE] A US judge struck a first blow against the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records Monday, ruling it breaches...

WASHINGTON - The White House Monday renewed its demand for Edward Snowden to return home to face trial, after a top spy official floated...

WASHINGTON - US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden effectively stole the "keys to the kingdom" when he swiped more than 1.5 million top secret files,...

LONDON - The European Union's banking watchdog on Friday issued a warning over virtual currency trading amid huge swings in the value of Bitcoin,...

WASHINGTON - A National Security Agency official said in an interview released Friday that he would be open to cutting an amnesty deal with...

WASHINGTON - A review panel handed President Barack Obama a report on surveillance by US spy agencies Friday in the wake of explosive revelations...

WASHINGTON - Chinese and Americans widely distrust each other but few among the public or elite see the other power as an enemy, a...

WASHINGTON - A White House review will conclude that a sweeping US spy agency program to collect data on telephone calls and Internet use...

SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter on Thursday restored the ability to block unwanted followers from peering at posts, quickly reversing a policy change that triggered...

NEW DELHI - Worried by US spying revelations, India has begun drawing up a new email policy to help secure government communications, but the...

PARIS - An association grouping web giants such as Google and Facebook on Wednesday slammed the adoption in France of a bill that gives...

ATTINGHAUSEN - It looks like the ideal location for a James Bond thriller: a massive underground bunker in a secret location in the Swiss...

MONTREAL - Canada has spied abroad on behalf of the US National Security Agency, according to a classified document cited by public broadcaster CBC...

WASHINGTON - US mobile carriers provided some one million records to law enforcement in 2012 related to warrants, wiretaps, location data and "cell-tower dumps,"...

US, Britain 'Spying on Virtual World': Report WASHINGTON - US and British intelligence have been spying on the global online gaming world because they...

WASHINGTON - Eight leading US-based technology companies on Monday called on Washington to overhaul its surveillance laws following the revelations of online eavesdropping from...

SINGAPORE - Singapore's central bank has called on financial institutions to tighten up cyber security after a database on elite customers of Standard Chartered...

VIENNA - Sexual orientation, private debt, medical records, even your favorite ice cream flavor: do you know much of this personal information is out...

STOCKHOLM - Sweden has provided the US with "unique" intelligence on Russia's leadership, according to new documents leaked by US fugitive Edward Snowden and...