“The US court of appeals has ruled that the bulk collection of telephone metadata is unlawful, in a landmark decision that clears the way for a full legal challenge against the National Security Agency. A panel of three federal judges for the second circuit overturned an earlier ruling that the controversial surveillance practice first revealed to the US public by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 could not be subject to judicial review. The judges opted not to end the domestic bulk collection while Congress decides its fate, calling judicial inaction ‘a lesser intrusion’ on privacy than at the time the case was initially argued.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/07/nsa-phone-records-program-illegal-court
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