NSA phone surveillance not authorized: U.S. appeals court

[shodan]

[quote](Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a challenge to a controversial National Security Agency program that collected the records of millions of Americans' phone calls, saying the program was not authorized by Congress.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge erred in dismissing a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union that challenged the constitutionality of the surveillance on the ground it violated people's privacy.[/quote]

[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/07/us-usa-security-nsa-idUSKBN0NS1IN20150507[/url]

[sasherz]

[QUOTE]"Such expansive development of government repositories of formerly private records would be an unprecedented contraction of the privacy expectations of all Americans," Lynch wrote in a 97-page decision.

"Perhaps such a contraction is required by national security needs in the face of the dangers of contemporary domestic and international terrorism," he added. "But we would expect such a momentous decision to be preceded by substantial debate, and expressed in unmistakable language. There is no evidence of such a debate."[/QUOTE]

It's always nice to hear people in the government saying things that make sense.

[Snowmew]

"So?" - [I]NSA, 2015[/I]

[Gook Nukem]

something tells me that all this doesn't really mean much, and they'll just keep doing it quietly since they already have the infrastructure needed to do it.

[FreakyMe]

[QUOTE=Quark:;47678718]something tells me that all this doesn't really mean much, and they'll just keep doing it quietly since they already have the infrastructure needed to do it.[/QUOTE]

The government should claim all NSA infrastructure and piece it out for use by computer science departments in universities across the nation.