Supreme Court passes on NSA bulk phone surveillance case

“The Supreme Court declined Monday to resolve the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s bulk telephone metadata surveillance program, leaving intact what a lower-court judge described as an ‘almost-Orwellian’ surveillance effort in which the metadata from every phone call to and from the United States is catalogued by US spies.  The high court’s inaction Monday means the future of the phone surveillance program will most likely play itself out in the political theater before the judicial arena. Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the stated provision allowing the bulk collection, expires June 1, 2015. There are some 30 different legislative packages in Congress on the topic.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/supreme-court-passes-on-nsa-bulk-phone-surveillance-case/

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