The big Jewel v. NSA case is still moving forward. This is the pre-Snowden lawsuit against the NSA over its tapping of fiber optic cables. We now understand that this was part of what the NSA refers to as „upstream collection“ under Section 706 of the FISA Amendments Act, but most of us recognize it for what it really is: and that‘s snooping on tons of internet backbone traffic in the hopes of finding something interesting.