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As far as I know, none of the NSA's practices have been ruled unconstitutional. At best, the courts have sent mixed signals, and the collection of metadata was
by codex 13y ago
As far as I know, none of the NSA's practices have been ruled unconstitutional. At best, the courts have sent mixed signals, and the collection of metadata was explicitly decreed constitutional by a precious Supreme Court ruling.
- intslack 13y agoNot exactly, you have to stretch pen register authority pretty far to extend it to the NSA's bulk programmatic uses. http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/11/problems-with-the-fiscs-newly-declassified-opinion-on-bulk-collection-of-internet-metadata/ http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/11/problems-with-the-fiscs-n...