Last week, the FISA Court (FISC) renewed yet again (as it has every few months for over 7 years) the ability of the government to demand data on every phone call from American telcos. Last month, the FISC (for the first time) published its rationale for allowing the collection — one that many experts found extremely lacking. Not only did the court incorrectly state that members of Congress were fully aware of the details of the program when they renewed it, but it also made up some of its own rules and ignored some of the Supreme Court‘s statements on such forms of data collection.