{"id":17182,"date":"2015-05-10T08:52:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T13:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17182"},"modified":"2015-05-10T08:52:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T13:52:16","slug":"eff-case-analysis-appeals-court-rules-nsa-phone-records-dragnet-is-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17182","title":{"rendered":"EFF Case Analysis: Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Records Dragnet is Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EFF Case Analysis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/05\/eff-case-analysis-appeals-court-rules-nsa-phone-records-dragnet-illegal\">Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Records Dragnet is Illegal<\/a> by Andrew Crocker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We now have the first decision from a court of appeals on the NSA\u2019s mass surveillance program involving bulk collection of telephone records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, and it\u2019s a doozy. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an opinion in ACLU v. Clapper holding that the NSA\u2019s telephone records program went far beyond what Congress authorized when it passed Section 215 of the Patriot Act in 2001. The court completely rejected the government\u2019s secret reinterpretation of Section 215 that has served as the basis for the telephone records collection program. EFF filed amicus briefs in this case in both the district and circuit courts, and we congratulate our colleagues at the ACLU on this significant victory. <\/p>\n<p>The Second Circuit\u2019s opinion stands as a clear sign that the courts are ready to step in and rule that mass surveillance is illegal. As we\u2019ll discuss in a future post, it also marks a significant change in the context of the ongoing legislative debate in Congress about these issues. Above all, it is clear that Congress must do more to rein in dragnet surveillance by the NSA. <\/p>\n<p>This post explains some highlights of the opinion. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF Case Analysis: Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Records Dragnet is Illegal by Andrew Crocker: We now have the first decision from a court of appeals on the NSA\u2019s mass surveillance program involving bulk collection of telephone records under Section &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17183,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions\/17183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}