Dec 2, 2019
Congress never intended to authorize the massive collection of Americans’ call data, the judges said.
Story about 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals 2015 ruling that NSA’s phone metatdata collection program “stretched the meaning of the [USA Patriot Act] to enable “sweeping surveillance” of Americans’ data in “staggering” volumes. The goverment had “argued that huge volumes of records — being collected from U.S. phone companies each day and stored in a database — are relevant to counterterrorism investigations because any record could later prove critical in identifying terrorism suspects.”