(politi.co)
Written By joeo10
2020-09-02T22:54:03Z
Judge Marsha Berzon's opinion, which contains a half-dozen references to the role of former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden in disclosing the NSA metadata program, concludes that the "bulk collection" of such data violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The appeals court stopped just short of saying that the snooping was definitely unconstitutional, but rejected the Justice Department's arguments that collecting the metadata did not amount to a search under a 40-year-old legal precedent because customers voluntarily share such info with telephone providers.
Huge, and I guess Edward Snowden was right after all…
A federal appeals court has ruled the NSA phone metadata program was illegal & maybe unconstitutional to boot.