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                 NSA Mass Phone Record Collection Ruled Illegal

   Josh Centers

   Nearly seven years after it was revealed to the public by whistleblower
   Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency's mass phone record
   collection program has been [1]ruled illegal by the Ninth Circuit Court
   of Appeals. The program scooped up metadata about billions of phone
   records in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack, though not the
   contents of the calls themselves. The program itself was reportedly
   [2]shut down last year, though [3]Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which
   authorized the collection, remains in murky legislative terrority. We
   reported on the Section 215 program, as well as many others, in our
   series [4]Keeping Up with the Snoops, which saw most of its traffic
   from December 2013 until June 2015.

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   1. https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/03/nsa-bulk-records-appeals-illegal/
   2. https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/congress-section-215-extension/
   3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_summary_of_the_Patriot_Act,_Title_II#Section_215:_Access_to_records_and_other_items_under_FISA
   4. https://tidbits.com/series/keeping-up-with-the-snoops/
   5. https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/03/nsa-bulk-records-appeals-illegal/

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