TechDirt: EFF Asks Court To Declare NSA’s ‘Internet Backbone’ Collections Unconstitutional

TechDirt: EFF Asks Court To Declare NSA’s ‘Internet Backbone’ Collections Unconstitutional by Tim Cushing:

This case is also at the center of the DOJ’s on-again, off-again metadata destruction plans, which ultimately resulted in the FISA court backing up the district court’s preservation order preventing the destruction of relevant aged-off Section 702 data. The DOJ said one thing and did another, in the end destroying evidence and claiming the NSA’s was ‘too complex’ to separate relevant data from the rest of the collection.