national security

Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly is considering a bill that would create a national biometric database of the country's residents.

The fleet was presented at an event featuring President Carlos Alvarado and Minister of Public Security Michael Soto.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording "100 percent" of a foreign country's telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden.