Judge enjoins NSA to not collect metadata on attorney or his law firm.

[Razer]

Does anyone here actually believe the NSA gives a fuck what some pissant
federal judge says?


On 11/11/2015 06:53 PM, jim bell wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/u-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-spying-case-025251888--finance.html
> <http://news.yahoo.com/u-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-spying-case-025251888--finance.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma>
>
> By Dustin Volz
> Opponents of mass surveillance cheered the ruling by U.S. District
> Court Judge Richard Leon, who granted an injunction to bar the NSA
> from collecting the phone metadata of California attorney J.J. Little
> and his small legal practice.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal
> judge on Monday for the first time ordered the National Security
> Agency to cease collecting the phone call records of a lawyer and his
> firm, providing an unprecedented but narrow and largely symbolic
> victory to privacy advocates.
> Unlike previous rulings against the NSA's program to vacuum up
> Americans' call data, which was exposed publicly by former NSA
> contractor Edward Snowden in 2013, Leon’s opinion does not grant a
> stay, meaning it will take effect immediately.
> The decision is of little practical consequence because it is so
> narrow in scope in covering only Little and his firm.
> It also comes just weeks before the NSA is scheduled to end its
> controversial bulk collection program in favor of a more targeted
> system. That new regime, as mandated by Congress earlier this year,
> will become active on Nov. 29.
> But the ruling's language is forceful and represents a win for civil
> liberties groups concerned that NSA surveillance is too intrusive.
> Leon wrote that the case may be the last court evaluation of the NSA's
> bulk metadata collection program.
> "It will not, however, be the last chapter in the ongoing struggle to
> balance privacy rights and national security interests under our
> Constitution in an age of evolving technological wizardry," he wrote.
> On Twitter, Snowden cheered the "historic decision" as one that
> concluded the NSA “violated Americans’ privacy rights.”
> Leon, a conservative judge appointed by former President George W.
> Bush, has long been among the most vocal judges critical of the NSA’s
> spying practices.
> Leon said he did not stay his Monday decision “because it has been
> almost two years since I first found that the NSA’s bulk telephony
> metadata program likely violates the Constitution."
> Other plaintiffs in the case, including conservative activist Larry
> Klayman, who began the lawsuit, were not included in the ruling, due
> to issues concerning standing.
> A higher court previously rejected Klayman’s challenge, saying he
> could not prove his phone was targeted by the NSA as Snowden’s
> documents only revealed customers of Verizon Business Network
> Services, which is a subsidiary of Verizon Communications, such as
> Little, were implicated. Klayman added Little to his case to address
> the standing concern.
>
>


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