"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
“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)