FISA Court Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Program Can Resume

Posted by wglb on Thursday July 09, 2015 @09:03AM
from the ivebeenmugged.typepad.com dept.

http://ivebeenmugged.typepad.com/my_weblog/2015/07/fisa-nsa-resume.html

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Re:FISA Court Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Progr... by ddlatham on Thursday July 09, 2015 @09:41AM (#9857779)

This decision previously discussed when it happened last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9809249

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Re:FISA Court Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Progr... by tobbeb on Thursday July 09, 2015 @10:43AM (#9858086)

I just want to point out that "FISA" is the word for "fart" in swedish

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Re:FISA Court Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Progr... by joesmo on Thursday July 09, 2015 @10:37AM (#9858052)

tl;dr: NSC can resume mass collection of phone records using their own data centers and in about five months, they have to move the data to a different data center.

Yeah, that's a big win for privacy.

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Re:FISA Court Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Progr... by geggam on Thursday July 09, 2015 @10:23AM (#9857972)

Where is the constitutional amendment for these types of things ?

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Re:FISA Court Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Progr... by celticninja on Thursday July 09, 2015 @10:37AM (#9858050)

colour me shocked.

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Re:FISA Court Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Progr... by mplscoder on Thursday July 09, 2015 @10:23AM (#9857977)

Secret court rules secret program can resume.

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