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US government seeks to hold phone data beyond five-year limit |
February 27, 2014
The U.S. government has asked a secret surveillance court to allow it to hold telephone metadata for a period beyond the current five-year limit, for use as potential evidence in civil lawsuits regarding the collection of the data.In June last year, former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, revealed that the agency was collecting bulk phone records of Verizon customers in the U.S.The government subsequently confirmed that it had a program for the bulk collection of phone metadata, which triggered a number of privacy law suits in various courts challenging the legality of the NSA program under section 215 of the Patriot Act.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2102720/us-government-seeks-to-hold-phone-data-beyond-fiveyear-limit.html#tk.rss_all
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