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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.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @10:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @10:44PM (#203996)

    The USA Prison Act just reauthorized the spying. Having some data stored on company servers does not make any of it less-invasive. The real invasive part is that the data is being collected at all.