The government's "dragnet" collection of phone records for a secret
surveillance program "is akin to snatching every American's address
book," the American Civil Liberties Union claims Tuesday in a federal
lawsuit against top officials.
"It gives the government a comprehensive record of our associations and public movements, revealing a wealth of detail about our familial, political, professional, religious, and intimate associations," the ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union claim in Manhattan Federal Court.
The groups filed suit following the leak of a secret court order, published by the Guardian on June 5, forcing Verizon to "turn over, every day, metadata about the calls made by each of its subscribers over the three-month period ending on July 19, 2013."
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, 29, has identified himself as the source who leaked documents about the government's surveillance programs to the Guardian and The Washington Post.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/06/11/58420.htm
"It gives the government a comprehensive record of our associations and public movements, revealing a wealth of detail about our familial, political, professional, religious, and intimate associations," the ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union claim in Manhattan Federal Court.
The groups filed suit following the leak of a secret court order, published by the Guardian on June 5, forcing Verizon to "turn over, every day, metadata about the calls made by each of its subscribers over the three-month period ending on July 19, 2013."
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, 29, has identified himself as the source who leaked documents about the government's surveillance programs to the Guardian and The Washington Post.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/06/11/58420.htm
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