bogeyman
20th December 2014, 19:37
"A digital rights group in the United States plans to argue in federal court this week that the National Security Agency’s internet surveillance operations violate the US Constitution’s ban against unlawful searches and seizures.
Six years after the Electronic Frontier Foundation brought suit against the NSA on behalf of a former AT&T customer, Carolyn Jewel, US District Court Judge Jeffrey White for the Northern District of California will hear an EFF attorney argue on Friday for summary judgment and attest that the intelligence agency’s data collection methods breach the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment clauses intended to protect private information.
Filed back in 2008, the EFF’s fight against the NSA long predates the public’s awareness of Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor who leaked classified documents about the agency’s surveillance operations in 2013 and has since been charged with espionage and theft by the US Department of Justice. The disclosures attributed to Snowden and subsequent admissions from the intelligence community have in the past year provided the EFF and others with ample fodder to plead their cases against the government, however, and on Friday, Judge White is expected to be told by the group that the operations of the NSA as they’re known today are unconstitutional."
http://www.governmentsecrets.com/nsa-eff-square-off-court-internet-surveillance/?utm_source=emailcampaign29&utm_medium=phpList&utm_content=HTMLemail&utm_campaign=This+Week%27s+Government+Secrets+Exposed
Six years after the Electronic Frontier Foundation brought suit against the NSA on behalf of a former AT&T customer, Carolyn Jewel, US District Court Judge Jeffrey White for the Northern District of California will hear an EFF attorney argue on Friday for summary judgment and attest that the intelligence agency’s data collection methods breach the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment clauses intended to protect private information.
Filed back in 2008, the EFF’s fight against the NSA long predates the public’s awareness of Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor who leaked classified documents about the agency’s surveillance operations in 2013 and has since been charged with espionage and theft by the US Department of Justice. The disclosures attributed to Snowden and subsequent admissions from the intelligence community have in the past year provided the EFF and others with ample fodder to plead their cases against the government, however, and on Friday, Judge White is expected to be told by the group that the operations of the NSA as they’re known today are unconstitutional."
http://www.governmentsecrets.com/nsa-eff-square-off-court-internet-surveillance/?utm_source=emailcampaign29&utm_medium=phpList&utm_content=HTMLemail&utm_campaign=This+Week%27s+Government+Secrets+Exposed