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Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying.

posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-care-what-you-want-we're-going-to-do-this dept.

AnonTechie writes:

A secret US tribunal ruled late Monday that the National Security Agency is free to continue its bulk telephone metadata surveillance program—the same spying that Congress voted to terminate weeks ago.

Congress disavowed the program NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden exposed when passing the USA Freedom Act, which President Barack Obama signed June 2. The act, however, allowed for the program to be extended for six months to allow "for an orderly transition" to a less-invasive telephone metadata spying program.

For that to happen, the Obama administration needed the blessing of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court). The government just revealed the order.

In setting aside an appellate court's ruling that the program was illegal, the FISA Court ruled that "Congress deliberately carved out a 180-day period following the date of enactment in which such collection was specially authorized. For this reason, the Court approves the application (PDF) in this case."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/secret-us-court-allows-resumption-of-bulk-phone-metadata-spying/

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by skullz on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:15PM

    by skullz (2532) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:15PM (#203910)

    I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of server fans suddenly screamed back to life

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Kromagv0 on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:34PM

    by Kromagv0 (1825) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:34PM (#203924) Homepage

    That much rotational momentum must be why NIST had to add the last night leap second.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by RobotMonster on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:38PM

      by RobotMonster (130) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:38PM (#203929) Journal

      Argh. +1 Funny. Normally I have many unused mod-points to spend. Right now I have none. Please, time your jokes better.

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @09:54PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @09:54PM (#203975)

        > Please, time your jokes better.

        Hey, they announce the leap second; it's not my problem if you didn't set your watch.

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:48PM

      by Bot (3902) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:48PM (#203940) Journal

      Neat. It explains global warming too.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @08:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @08:02PM (#203945)

    You are mistaken. That is simply cognitive error due to accumulated decades of NSA bull$hi7.

    There are no servers, there is no NSA. They certainly didn't resume something they certainly never did in the first place - certainly not before congressional approval.