The United States government and one of the country's largest telecom carriers are once again embroiled in a mass surveillance controversy that challenges the fundamental privacy safeguards for ...

Sandra Ritter with her son William celebrating her birthday at their Largo home in 1997. courtesy of Sandra Ritter Sandra Ritter hasn’t seen her only son in eight years. He’s incarcerated at Apalachee ...

A push is growing in Massachusetts for reforms to a program that provides inmates with unlimited, free phone calls, an initiative that put Bay State taxpayers on the hook for about $12.5 million ...

According to a letter obtained by WIRED, a little-known surveillance program called Data Analytical Services (DAS) has been secretly collecting and analyzing more than a trillion domestic phone ...

MARSHALL - Cynthia Wheeler is a Marshall resident and Lifeline program participant who said she uses the phone provided to her by Safelink Wireless when the bills for her regular cell phone are too ...

The Federal Communications Commission announced they are revoking California's "opt‑out" status from the federal Lifeline Program, citing the state's recent law prohibiting the collection of Social ...