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US court disallows NSA from holding phone records beyond five years |
March 10, 2014
The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled against a U.S. government request that it be allowed to hold telephone metadata beyond the current five-year limit as it may be required as evidence in civil lawsuits that question the data collection.The American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Senator Rand Paul and the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles are among those who have filed lawsuits challenging the phone records program, which came to light in June last year, after former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, revealed that the agency was collecting bulk phone records of Verizon customers in the U.S.The FISC’s Presiding Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday that the proposed amended procedures would further infringe on the privacy interests of U.S. persons whose “telephone records were acquired in vast numbers and retained by the government for five years to aid in national security investigation.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2106240/us-court-disallows-nsa-from-holding-phone-records-beyond-five-years.html#tk.rss_all
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