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Title: Nineteen Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection Post by: btceic on July 17, 2013, 01:01:36 AM http://www.securityweek.com/19-groups-sue-nsa-over-data-collection
Quote WASHINGTON - Nineteen US organizations filed suit Tuesday against the National Security Agency claiming their constitutional rights were violated by the secret spy agency's data collection programs. The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed the action on behalf of a variety of groups including the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, the gun rights group Calguns Foundation, Greenpeace and Human Rights Watch. The suit filed in California federal court alleges that the mass collection of phone records under the so-called PRISM program violates Americans' constitutional rights. "Our case seeks to apply the right of association in the digital age," said EFF attorney Cindy Cohn. Cohn said the suit, based on a longstanding Supreme Court ruling, contends the government's collection of "metadata" or information on calls placed, without the content of the conversation, allows the government to monitor who is associating with various groups. Title: Re: Nineteen Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection Post by: livan on July 18, 2013, 08:52:34 AM btceic will you sue too?
Title: Re: Nineteen Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection Post by: CoinsForTech on July 18, 2013, 12:00:52 PM Very exciting! The EFF is an organization I seriously respect. They are a donor-funded non-profit fighting extremely hard to keep our privacy and freedom. They also accept bitcoin (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/thank-you-bitcoin-community) so please consider contributing if you are concerned about the NSA and similar programs.
The EFF also compiled a timeline of NSA spying which I found interesting. It can be viewed here. (https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline) |