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EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Federal Judge Allows Electronic Frontier Foundation's NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed

08 July 2013

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"San Francisco - A federal judge today rejected the U.S. government's latest attempt to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) long-running challenge to the government's illegal dragnet surveillance programs. Today's ruling means the allegations at the heart of the Jewel case move forward under the supervision of a public federal court."

See the full story: Federal Judge Allows Electronic Frontier Foundation's NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed (link)

And see the aerticle: Why “we only spy on foreigners” doesn’t work any more for the NSA (Washington Post, link)

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