10.11.2015 - 03:55 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

NSA Ordered to Stop Collecting, Querying Plaintiffs‘ Phone Records

Affirming his previous ruling that the NSA’s telephone records collection program is unconstitutional, a federal judge ordered the NSA to cease collecting the telephone records of an individual and his business. The judge further ordered the NSA to segregate any records that have already been collected so that they are not reviewed when the NSA’s telephone records database is queried. The order comes 20 days before the NSA program is set to expire pursuant to the USA FREEDOM Act.