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| Subject: Privacy lobby challenges NSA spying in highest court Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:46 am | |
| A privacy rights group will file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court to stop the National Security Agency's surveillance program that collects the telephone records of millions of Americans.
The group, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, said it is taking the extraordinary legal step of going directly to the Supreme Court because the sweeping collection of the phone records of US citizens has created ''exceptional circumstances'' that only the nation's highest court can address.
It will take its case to the Supreme Court because it could not challenge the NSA program at the secret court that approved it, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and lower federal courts did not have the authority to review FISC orders.
In its petition, the group said the FISA court had ''exceeded its statutory jurisdiction when it ordered production of millions of domestic telephone records that cannot plausibly be relevant to an authorised investigation''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/privacy-lobby-challenges-nsa-spying-in-highest-court-20130708-2pmbl.html#ixzz2YcBEBGO8 |
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