Lawsuit Challenges NSA’s Bulk Phone Data Grab | MIT Technology Review

A lawsuit disputes a new interpretation of the Patriot Act allowing routine, bulk collection of phone data by the NSA
A little over a month ago, leaked documents revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency collects records of every phone call made using Verizon’s service (see “A Broader Interpretation of the Patriot Act”). Today a diverse group of 19 organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Greenpeace, and the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles filed a court challenge to the program (here’s a PDF of the documents).
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