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ACLU: Snowden Proved NSA Internet Spying Harms Americans
ABC News — Mar 10, 2015, 4:58 PM ET
By JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press
Quote:
The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups sued the National Security Agency
and the Justice Department on Tuesday, challenging the government's practice of collecting
personal information from vast amounts of data harvested directly from the Internet's infrastructure.
The suit filed in federal court in Maryland accuses the NSA of harvesting virtually* everything
sent via the Internet between Americans and people outside the United States,
and then using search terms or identifiers to identify and monitor foreign intelligence targets.<snip>
The suit's other plaintiffs include The Wikimedia Foundation, Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International USA, the Rutherford Institute, PEN American Center,
The Nation magazine, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers,
Global Fund for Women and Washington Office on Latin America.<snip>
A similar challenge was turned away by the U.S. Supreme Court,
which said the plaintiffs couldn't prove they'd been harmed.
This lawsuit says that's changed since the government confirmed
the surveillance after its scope and details were leaked by former
government contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.
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* ... a rare and surprisingly appropriate use of the word.
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