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12-18-2013, 07:30 AM
http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2yEgrM7BF6tg8fkJcSznrA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/Finance/US_AHTTP_H_FISCAL_TIMES_LIVE/06112013_NSA_Phone_article_original.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/why-nsa-ruling-won-t-111500349.html)Opponents of the National Security Agency’s vast surveillance network won an important victory Tuesday when U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that the agency’s collection of cell phone data without a warrant was an unconstitutional violation of privacy. However, national security law experts warned that the victory is likely to be short lived. Leon ruled that the government could no longer connect metadata culled from cell phone calls, a fancy way of saying that the NSA can't track whom we call and who calls us. But according to Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at American University and expert in national security law, the ruling does not mean that NSA is going to alter its activities in any way.-



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