Monday, 18 November 2013

NSA phone-tracking case blocked by Supreme Court

NSA phone-tracking case blocked by Supreme Court
Nov 18th 2013, 14:45, by Russell Brandom

This morning, the Supreme Court declined to hear an NSA-challenging case brought forward by privacy group EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center). The case would have been the first major NSA case to have been brought before the Supreme Court, targeting the FISA court order for all of Verizon's phone records. EPIC maintained that the court overstepped its statutory authority with the order, since the records specifically included calls made "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls."
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