A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a National Security Agency program that sweeps up logs of Americans’ phone calls is illegal — the most significant setback yet for the long-running surveillance operation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York said the program went beyond what Congress authorized in 2001 to […]
States try to rein in police cellphone spying – Tallahassee Democrat
Yet the feds, invoking terror concerns, push to hide public records Nine states this year have placed new legal limits on police cellphone surveillance after revelations that law enforcement agencies across the country are gathering data of thousands of people at once, often without warrants or regard to whether the subjects are targets of criminal […]
