Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Rights group challenges NSA surveillance in Supreme Court

[JURIST] The Elec­tronic Pri­vacy Infor­ma­tion Cen­ter (EPIC) [advo­cacy web­site] on Mon­day filed an emer­gency peti­tion [text, PDF] with the US Supreme Court [offi­cial web­site] chal­leng­ing the National Secu­rity Agency (NSA) [offi­cial web­site] tele­phone record sur­veil­lance pro­gram. EPIC is argu­ing [press release, PDF] that the For­eign Intel­li­gence Sur­veil­lance Court (FISC) exceeded its author­ity when it “ordered pro­duc­tion of mil­lions of domes­tic tele­phone records that can­not plau­si­bly be rel­e­vant to an autho­rized inves­ti­ga­tion.” The secret court order was revealed last month by…







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