Tag: Court of Appeals
The Government Spent a Lot of Time in Court Defending NSA Spying Last Year: 2014 in Review
EFF was suing the NSA before it was cool. We filed our first lawsuit against the NSA for mass spying in 2008, after the NSA butted into our lawsuit against AT&T for helping the NSA do mass spying. We’ve also
New Ruling Shows the NSA Can’t Legally Justify Its Phone Spying Anymore
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said no this week to tracking your movements using data from your cell phone without a warrant when it declared that this information is constitutionally protected. The case, United States v. Davis , is
Court OKs immunity for telecoms in U.S. wiretap case
SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. appeals court on Thursday said a 2008 law granting telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the National Security Agency with an email and telephone eavesdropping program is constitutional. The case had consolidated 33 lawsuits filed
