Motherboard: This Is the Secret Court Order That Forced the NSA to Delete the Data It Collected About You

Motherboard: This Is the Secret Court Order That Forced the NSA to Delete the Data It Collected About You

The court found an “institutional lack of candor on NSA’s part and emphasized that this is a very serious Fourth Amendment issue.”

A newly released court opinion from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) shows that for years the NSA improperly and perhaps illegally surveilled Americans. The court order triggered the surprise announcement two weeks ago that the agency would be severely scaling back its domestic surveillance and destroying previously collected data on Americans.

Thursday, the Department of Justice released the 99-page court opinion from last month that ordered the National Security Agency to delete much of its surveillance on American people, which was collected improperly and in potential violation of the Fourth Amendment. The DOJ released the opinion as part of a 2015 plan to be more transparent.

The case name, number, and date is redacted.

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