Federal Judge Says NSA Phone Spying Is Probably Unconstitutional

A federal justice just rein the NSA ’s widespread collection of phone recordsis most probably unconstitutionaland gave the go ahead for plaintiffs to file a suit . And pending appeal , the judge said thatthe data collectionshould be halted . Of course , until that appeal break down through , the NSA will continue spying .

The ruling voice about as dramaticas any civic liberties - screw American would like it to . “ [ T]he almost - Orwellian technology that enables the Government to lay in and analyse the speech sound metadata of every telephone substance abuser in the United States is unlike anything that could have been consider in 1979 , ” allege U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon refer to Smith v. Maryland , the first case allowing the government to collect speech sound datum . He retain , “ The notion that the Government could collect similar data on hundreds of millions of masses and keep back that data for a five - yr period , updating it with new data every day in perpetuity , was at best , in 1979 , the stuff of scientific discipline fiction . ”

https://gizmodo.com/dont-believe-a-word-of-last-nights-60-minutes-nsa-int-1484074797

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So this is a big raft . As Politico point outthis “ is the first pregnant effectual black eye for the NSA ’s surveillance program ” since Edward Snowden ’s leak made newspaper headline in June , and it sets in motion a cognitive operation that could bring the NSA spying to halt . But it has n’t yet . Leon ’s cease and desist order amount to a crossing guard permit the plaintiffs through to the next part of the sound operation , but it ’ll take some time before anything is net . It ’ll probably take a lot more time before something crazylike Snowden acquiring amnestyhappens . [ The Wire ]

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