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USA-NSA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Surveillance court rejected Verizon challenge to NSA calls program

28 April 2014

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"Verizon in January filed a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s program that collects billions of Americans’ call-detail records, but a surveillance court rejected it..."

See the full article: Surveillance court rejected Verizon challenge to NSA calls program (Washington Post, link).

See: Seven telcos named as providing fiber optic cable access to UK spies - New Snowden leaks show Verizon, Vodafone, and BT share direct data (Statewatch News Online, August 2013).

and also: (“Microsoft”) moves to quash a search warrant to the extent that it directs Microsoft to produce the contents of one of its customer’s e-mails where that information is stored on a server located in Dublin, Ireland: "Microsoft contends that courts in the United States are not authorized to issue warrants for extraterritorial search and seizure, and that this is such a warrant. For the reasons that follow, Microsoft’s motion is denied.." (Judgment, pdf)

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