NSA Phone Surveillance Case May Head Towards The Supreme Court

NSA phone surveillance case may head towards the Supreme Court

Headquarters of the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. This article or image contains materials that originally came from a National Security Agency (NSA) website or publication. It is believed that this information is not classified, and is in the public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:National_Security_Agency_headquarters,_Fort_Meade,_Maryland.jpg
Headquarters of the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. This article or image contains materials that originally came from a National Security Agency (NSA) website or publication. It is believed that this information is not classified, and is in the public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:National_Security_Agency_headquarters,_Fort_Meade,_Maryland.jpg

This is going to be interesting. After a federal judge’s ruling last week that declared bulk phone metadata collection by the NSA illegal, another federal judge has now come to the opposite conclusion—that it is in fact legal.

With these conflicting rulings, the case may head to the US Supreme Court in the near future.

The ACLU had filed a lawsuit against the NSA’s phone metadata surveillance program recently.

auf deutsch:

“Geheimdienste: US-Bundesrichter erklärt NSA-Telefonüberwachung für legal.” (Zeit Online, 27.12.2013)

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