Friday, August 30, 2013

The ACLU wages a long-shot legal battle against NSA surveillance


Earlier this week, the American Civil Liberties moved forward with a lawsuit filed in June, asking a New York court to stop the NSA from gathering any information from its phone lines while it attempts to end the agency’s mass metadata collection. "Calling patterns can reveal when we are awake and asleep," wrote Princeton professor Edward Felten in a briefing. "Our religion, if a person regularly makes no calls on the Sabbath, or makes a large number of calls on Christmas Day; our work habits and our social aptitude; the number of friends we have; and even our civil and political affiliations." Felten and the ACLU are trying to revive a case that Amnesty International lost earlier this year, hoping that the evidence is stronger this...


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