News

U.S. Justice Department Seeks Appeal On NSA Metadata Programs

We recently brought you the story on a Federal Judge in America stating that the NSA’s metadata programs or put more simply it’s surveillance programs were a vital tool to protect Americans and their safety. However before this ruling another Federal Judge ruled that the Surveillance programs were likely unconstitutional and in breach of the Fourth Amendment which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Well it looks like the White House didn’t approve of this ruling and are now looking at overturning the ruling.

The U.S. Justice Department filed an appeal on Friday to overturn the ruling made by Federal Judge Richard Leon, who called the data collection an “indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion of Americans’ privacy.”  With U.S. District Judge William Pauley stating that the Governments effort to collect every piece of data it can is a vital tool to protecting America and it’s citizens and it falls within the confines of U.S. law. It looks like this issue which first came to light after whistle-blower Edward Snowden, a former NSA Contractor started releasing information about the NSA’s methods of surveillance to the public.

This story has been an interesting one and one that has been in the news for the better half of last year and now with the legal mess happening in America, this matter will likely get even messier and probably end up in the Supreme Court. We’ll bring you more information on this story when it becomes available.

Thank you ZDNet for providing us with this information

Image courtesy of International Business Times

 

Peter Edward

Disqus Comments Loading...

Recent Posts

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 Possible Price Revealed

According to a new report, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU will be very expensive. It…

4 hours ago

AMD Krackan Processor with 6 Zen 5 and Zen 5c Cores for Budget AI Laptops Leaked

A new AMD processor in the form of an engineering model has been leaked in…

5 hours ago

SK Hynix Begins Production of First 321-Layer NAND Chips

SK Hynix has claimed to be the first company to mass-produce 321-layer NAND memory chips.…

5 hours ago

Trust Gaming GXT 609 Zoxa 2.0 PC Speakers

SOUNDS GREAT – Full stereo sound (12W peak power) gives your setup a booming audio…

9 hours ago

PowerA Wired Controller for Nintendo Switch

Special Edition Yoshi design Ergonomic controller shape with Nintendo Switch button layout Detachable 10ft (3m)…

9 hours ago

Logitech G Saitek PRO Flight Rudder Pedals

Fluid Motion: These flight rudder pedals are smooth and accurate that enable precise control over…

9 hours ago