The Electronic Frontier Foundation said National Security Agency...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said National Security Agency phone surveillance has hurt advocacy groups’ work and freedom of association. It filed the motion in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco Wednesday as part of First Unitarian Church of Los…
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Angeles v. NSA. The filing included testimony from 22 organizations alleging such problems with surveillance. The motion could be argued as early as February, EFF said in its news release (http://bit.ly/1bdEkEL). The motion asks the federal court to rule that the tracking surveillance is unconstitutional and not authorized under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. “This is exactly the type of chilling effect on the freedom of association that the First Amendment forbids,” EFF Senior Staff Attorney David Greene said in a statement.