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US Foreign Intelligence Court reauthorizes bulk phone data collection

The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) reauthorized on Friday the collection in bulk by the US government of “telephony metadata.”

18:03 04.01.2014

Unveiled NSA surveillance ruling offers glimpse into US legal rationale

A document released Tuesday by the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) shed light into the shadowy US legal strategy underlying the National Security Agency’s (NSA) large-scale telephone data collection.

16:53 18.09.2013

Civil rights NGO ACLU sues US officials over NSA surveillance program

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a claim against various high-ranking US government officials Tuesday in response to last week’s revelation that the US government had engaged in large-scale surveillance of the communication records of its citizens.

18:42 13.06.2013