FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2008, file photo President Bush waves after signing a 15-day extension of the Protect America Act after a speech in Las Vegas. Sternly prodding Congress, Bush told lawmakers ...

There's been a lot of mystery surrounding how, exactly, the National Security Agency's top secret PRISM program actually works. And now, thanks to a new report from the Associated Press, we have the ...

Publicized information on the U.S. government’s PRISM program has created a new debate on security. The debate is broadly one between national security and individual security, specifically a right to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can ...

There's been lots of justifiable concern about the NSA's newly disclosed PRISM program, which allows the government to conduct electronic surveillance on users of Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and other ...

Technology experts and a former government official say that phrasing, taken from a PowerPoint slide describing the program, was likely meant to differentiate Prism’s neatly organized, ...

WASHINGTON -- In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information on customers. Around ...

This frenetic, manual process was the forerunner to Prism, the recently revealed highly classified National Security Agency program that seizes records from Internet companies. As laws changed and ...