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The NSA was not allowed to spy on US citizens. >U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said that the U.S. surveillance of phone records was indeed illegal
by nix23 6y ago
The NSA was not allowed to spy on US citizens.
>U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said that the U.S. surveillance of phone records was indeed illegal.
The U.S. surveillance
- dragonwriter 6y ago> The NSA was not allowed to spy on US citizens. That's because of statutory restrictions (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) on surveillance of citizens adopted in the wake of the foreign intelligence apparatus being broadly used against domestic opposition, not Constitutional limits on rights to citizens. From the ruling at issue: «We conclude that the government may have violated the Fourth Amendment and did violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) when it collected the telephony metadata of millions of Americans»