The government doesn't need to listen to your phone calls to learn massive amounts of highly personal information about you. Americans are still buzzing about the revelation last week that the U.S.

How much can you learn about someone from cellphone metadata? Everything from their religious affiliation to their gun purchases, according to a new study by Stanford researchers. Last summer, soon ...

This month two judges issued two different opinions about the NSA’s controversial bulk metadata collection program. Judge Richard Leon ruled in Washington, D.C., that the program likely violated the ...

This week brought a new round of revelations about yet another National Security Agency surveillance program, this one created to hoover up details about how individual Americans use the Internet. The ...

What’s metadata? For the uninitiated, fear not – it’s pretty simple. It’s the information that sits behind all the digital files we use on a daily basis. An image? Yes – it has metadata telling you ...