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  Spying on allies creates mistrust, less security : Merkel

  World | January 30, 2014 13:54 IST

  Berlin : Nations spying on their allies would risk destroying trust and harming security, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in her first major policy speech after re-election Wednesday.She told parliament that Germany and the US

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  US looks at ways to prevent spying in its spying

  January 28, 2014 17:11 IST

  Washington: The U.S. government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans' phone records.As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of those records from the National Security

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  US judge says NSA spying on phone records unconstitutional

  World | December 17, 2013 16:25 IST

  Washington: In a setback to the Obama administration, a judge today ruled that the controversial mass surveillance of phone records by US intelligence was “arbitrary” and “indiscriminate”, raising a question mark on the spy programme

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  Revealed: NSA tracks more than 5 billion cellphones daily

  World | December 05, 2013 9:34 IST

  Washington: The National Security Agency tracks the locations of nearly 5 billion cellphones every day overseas, including those belonging to Americans abroad, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.The NSA inadvertently gathers the location records of "tens

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  NSA scoops data from Yahoo, Google data centres: Report

  World | October 31, 2013 9:14 IST

  Washington : The US National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links connecting Yahoo and Google data centres around the world, a US daily reported Wednesday.The Washington Post cited classified documents leaked

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  NSA head denies US spying in Europe

  World | October 30, 2013 9:02 IST

  Washington: US National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander Tuesday told lawmakers that the recent media reports about the agency's spying on European allies were "completely false".Top US intelligence officials testified before the US Congress,

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  US urged to tighten privacy laws to rebuild trust

  World | October 30, 2013 9:00 IST

  Washington : The US needs to tighten privacy laws to rebuild trust, damaged during the National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropping scandal, as the issue has already put Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in

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  Greece spied on US ambassadors, says ex-minister

  World | October 30, 2013 8:57 IST

  Athens:  Greece spied on at least two US ambassador, a former Greek foreign affairs minister Theodoros Pangalos revealed Tuesday, amid talks that the American embassy in Athens houses a surveillance centre."We didn't learn anything new...Everybody

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  Key senator wants 'total review' of intelligence programs

  World | October 29, 2013 8:08 IST

  Washington : Sen. Diane Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Monday called for a “total review of all intelligence programs” following allegations that the National Security Agency eavesdropped on the German chancellor—the latest

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  France summons US ambassador over spying reports

  World | October 21, 2013 19:16 IST

  Paris: France summoned the US ambassador on Monday over newspaper claims that the US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on millions of phone calls in the country.French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced that he summoned

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  Brazil blasts US for spying

  World | September 25, 2013 7:50 IST

  United Nations : Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday slammed the US for "meddling" in her country's affairs by widespread espionage."Recent revelations concerning the activities of a global network of electronic espionage have caused indignation and

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  Pakistani man, two others get ten years of jail for spying

  India | April 09, 2013 9:51 IST

  Bhopal, Apr 9: A Pakistani national and his two Indian associates have been sentenced to ten years rigorous imprisonment by a local court Monday on charge of spying for the neighbouring country.The court also imposed

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  Pak launches judicial inquiry into Indian prisoner's death

  World | January 26, 2013 21:12 IST

  Lahore, Jan 26: Pakistan has launched a judicial inquiry into the death of Indian national Chambel Singh, who was serving a five-year jail term for spying, following allegations that he died after being beaten by

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  Ravi Spying On His Roommate Was An Innocent Mistake : Lawyer

  World | March 14, 2012 7:57 IST

  New York, Mar 14: The lawyer for an Indian-origin student on trial for spying on his roommate's encounter with another man began closing arguments in the case at a US court here on Tuesday, arguing

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  Stratfor Accused Of Spying For Dow On Bhopal Activists

  World | February 27, 2012 23:20 IST

  London, Feb 27: Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks today began publishing more than five million confidential emails from US-based intelligence firm Stratfor, the anti-secrecy group said. The messages, which date from between July 2004 and December 2011, will

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  Russian Accused Of Mass Spamming Charged In US

  World | December 03, 2010 12:44 IST

  Milwaukee, Dec 3 :  A 23-year-old Russian man accused of running a network responsible for sending a large percentage of the world's spam e-mails will appear in a Wisconsin courtroom to hear charges against him.Oleg

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  Naval Employee Held For Spying

  India | May 27, 2010 20:45 IST

  An employee of Navyhas been arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan and police claimed to have recovered from him some "secret and sensitive" documents like photograph of Hindan Air Base and map of Meerut