The PATCH Act proposes the formation of a review board that would formalize and make transparent the processes by which the government determines whether it will use or disclose a zero-day vulnerability.

New rules signed by the president last week change the way the NSA is able to share raw intelligence data with other intelligence community agencies.

A Twitter business partner, whose service sifts through Twitter’s so-called fire hose of tweets as well as data from other sources to ascertain patterns in breaking news events, has been told to no longer provide its services to the U.S. intelligence community. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday reported that the arrangement between Dataminr—Twitter owns...