Dragnets

Jan. 20, 2016, 2 p.m. EST

Verizon’s Zombie Cookie Gets New Life

by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson,

Oct. 6, 2015, 1:15 p.m. EDT

6 Tips for Protecting Your Communications From Prying Eyes

June 18, 2015, 8 a.m. EDT

New Snowden Documents Reveal Secret Memos Expanding Spying

by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica, Charlie Savage, The New York Times, and Henrik Moltke, special to ProPublica,

June 4, 2015, 11 a.m. EDT

NSA Surveillance Lawsuit Tracker

May 13, 2015, 3:53 p.m. EDT

Internet Censorship in China: We’ll Sing it for You

by Sisi Wei and Yue Qiu,

Feb. 12, 2015, 5:31 p.m. EST

What's Really Happening with China's Great Firewall

by Sisi Wei,

Feb. 2, 2015, 1:40 p.m. EST

Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can't Kill

by Julia Angwin and Mike Tigas,

Jan. 14, 2015, 4:08 p.m. EST

Inside the Firewall: Tracking the News That China Blocks

by Sisi Wei,

Dec. 17, 2014, 5:48 p.m. EST

AT&T Stops Using Undeletable Phone Tracking IDs

Nov. 14, 2014, 3:34 p.m. EST

Somebody's Already Using Verizon's ID to Track Users

by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson,

Oct. 30, 2014, 11:59 a.m. EDT

NSA Documents Suggest a Close Working Relationship Between NSA, U.S. Companies

by Jeff Larson and Julia Angwin,

Oct. 15, 2014, 10:59 a.m. EDT

U.S. Company Helps Russia Block Prominent Putin Critic

by Sisi Wei,

Sept. 8, 2014, 12 p.m. EDT

Leaked Docs Show Spyware Used to Snoop on U.S. Computers

by Jeff Larson and Mike Tigas,

Aug. 8, 2014, 11:43 a.m. EDT

Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block

July 21, 2014, 9 a.m. EDT

Here’s One Way to Land on the NSA’s Watch List

by Julia Angwin and Mike Tigas,

July 9, 2014, 5:01 p.m. EDT

Privacy Tools: How to Block Online Tracking

by Hanqing Chen,

July 3, 2014, 9 a.m. EDT

Podcast: Mapping the NSA's Spying

by Nicole Collins Bronzan,

June 30, 2014, 11:55 a.m. EDT

FAQ For Our NSA Chart

June 30, 2014, 11:54 a.m. EDT

No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data

by Theodoric Meyer,

June 27, 2014, 10:29 a.m. EDT

House Adopts Amendment to Bar NSA From Meddling With Encryption Standards

June 20, 2014, 12:17 p.m. EDT

It’s Complicated: Facebook’s History of Tracking You

June 17, 2014, 12:26 p.m. EDT

Why Online Tracking Is Getting Creepier

June 12, 2014, 9:11 a.m. EDT

Privacy Tools: Encrypt What You Can

May 6, 2014, 3 p.m. EDT

Weibo IPO Reveals a Company Struggling With Censorship

April 18, 2014, 2:37 p.m. EDT

The U.S. Government: Paying to Undermine Internet Security, Not to Fix It

April 15, 2014, 12:50 p.m. EDT

What the Proposed NSA Reforms Wouldn't Do

April 3, 2014, 3:20 p.m. EDT

You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi.

Feb. 11, 2014, 4:02 p.m. EST

Podcast: What Your Smartphone Might Be Telling the NSA About You

by Minhee Cho,

Feb. 6, 2014, 10:08 a.m. EST

Privacy Tools: Opting Out from Data Brokers

Jan. 30, 2014, 1:29 p.m. EST

FAQ About NSA’s Interest in Angry Birds and Other ‘Leaky Apps’

by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson,

Jan. 28, 2014, 2:30 p.m. EST

Spy Agencies Probe Angry Birds and Other Apps for Personal Data

by Jeff Larson,

Jan. 27, 2014, 1:30 p.m. EST

Privacy Tools: How to Build Better Passwords

Jan. 21, 2014, 11:19 a.m. EST

Four Questionable Claims Obama Has Made on NSA Surveillance

Jan. 17, 2014, 8 a.m. EST

Privacy Tools: How to Safely Browse the Web

Jan. 14, 2014, 2:22 p.m. EST

Judge on NSA Case Cites 9/11 Report, But It Doesn't Actually Support His Ruling

Dec. 28, 2013, 12:35 p.m. EST

Presidential Panel to NSA: Stop Undermining Encryption

Dec. 18, 2013, 7:43 p.m. EST

Podcast: Spying with Avatars

by Nicole Collins Bronzan,

Dec. 12, 2013, 12:40 p.m. EST

World of Spycraft: NSA and CIA Spied in Online Games

Dec. 9, 2013, 7:59 a.m. EST

新浪微博:遭遇中国式审查

Nov. 14, 2013, 12:21 p.m. EST

China’s Memory Hole: The Images Erased From Sina Weibo

Nov. 14, 2013, 12:21 p.m. EST

How to Get Censored on China’s Twitter

Nov. 14, 2013, 12:19 p.m. EST

ProPublica Motion Seeks Release of Court Rulings on NSA Spying

by Nicole Collins Bronzan,

Nov. 12, 2013, 10:29 a.m. EST

NIST to Review Standards After Cryptographers Cry Foul Over NSA Meddling

by Jeff Larson,

Nov. 4, 2013, 4:05 p.m. EST

Claim on “Attacks Thwarted” by NSA Spreads Despite Lack of Evidence

by Justin Elliott and Theodoric Meyer,

Oct. 23, 2013, 8:59 a.m. EDT

Government Standards Agency “Strongly” Suggests Dropping its Own Encryption Standard

by Jeff Larson and Justin Elliott,

Sept. 13, 2013, 2:07 p.m. EDT

Johns Hopkins and the Case of the Missing NSA Blog Post

by Jeff Larson and Justin Elliott,

Sept. 9, 2013, 6:58 p.m. EDT

Revealed: The NSA's Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security

by Jeff Larson,

Sept. 5, 2013, 3:08 p.m. EDT

Why We Published the Decryption Story

by Stephen Engelberg and Richard Tofel,

Sept. 5, 2013, 2:54 p.m. EDT

The Surveillance Reforms Obama Supported Before He Was President

Aug. 7, 2013, 10:24 a.m. EDT

FAQ: What You Need to Know About the NSA's Surveillance Programs

Aug. 5, 2013, 3:20 p.m. EDT

Six Ways Congress May Reform NSA Snooping

July 25, 2013, 4:39 p.m. EDT

NSA Says It Can't Search Its Own Emails

July 23, 2013, 12:39 p.m. EDT

Does the NSA Tap That? What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance

July 22, 2013, 1:41 p.m. EDT

How the NSA’s High-Tech Surveillance Helped Europeans Catch Terrorists

by Sebastian Rotella,

June 19, 2013, 8 a.m. EDT

Podcast: NSA Surveillance and Intelligence Gathering

by Mike Webb,

June 18, 2013, 12:44 p.m. EDT

Defenders of NSA Surveillance Omit Most of Mumbai Plotter's Story

by Sebastian Rotella,

June 12, 2013, 1:36 p.m. EDT

The NSA Black Hole: 5 Basic Things We Still Don’t Know About the Agency's Snooping

by Justin Elliott and Theodoric Meyer,

June 10, 2013, 4:05 p.m. EDT

The Best Stories on the Government’s Growing Surveillance

by Christie Thompson,

June 6, 2013, 5:47 p.m. EDT

Was Petraeus Borked?

by Peter Maass,

Nov. 14, 2012, 5:02 p.m. EST

Is $22.5 Million a Big Enough Penalty for Google?

Aug. 13, 2012, 3:18 p.m. EDT

Announcing $22.5 Million Fine, FTC Says It Investigated Google’s Internet Tracking Early On

by Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan,

Aug. 9, 2012, 6:21 p.m. EDT

Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?

by Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan,

Aug. 1, 2012, 12:12 p.m. EDT

That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker

by Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan,

July 13, 2012, 3:57 p.m. EDT

How Many Millions of Cellphones Are Police Watching?

July 11, 2012, 2:05 p.m. EDT

Our FTC Privacy Story and Its Critics

by Paul Steiger and Stephen Engelberg,

July 6, 2012, 4:09 p.m. EDT

Correspondence Between the FTC and ProPublica

July 6, 2012, 10:55 a.m. EDT

How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the Government and What It Means for Your Online Privacy

by Peter Maass,

June 28, 2012, 5:30 a.m. EDT

Cellphone Companies Will Share Your Location Data - Just Not With You

June 26, 2012, 3:44 p.m. EDT

Cheat Sheet: Behind The U.S. Cyberattacks on Iran

June 1, 2012, 11:49 a.m. EDT

Remember Stuxnet? Why the U.S. is Still Vulnerable

May 17, 2012, 8:49 a.m. EDT

In the Evening Hours, CISPA Gets Some New Features

April 27, 2012, 3:37 p.m. EDT

Is CISPA SOPA 2.0? We Explain the Cybersecurity Bill