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On June 5, 2013, The Guardian details of the NSA鈥檚 domestic spying activities, including a secret from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to Verizon Business Network Services. The order required the company to turn over on 鈥渁n ongoing daily basis鈥� phone call details including whom calls are placed to and from, when those calls are made, and how long they last. This information, known as , can reveal intimate details about our private lives. On June 11, the 老澳门开奖结果 and NYCLU, both of which are current or recent Verizon Business customers, filed the lawsuit to end the government鈥檚 call-tracking program and have all of the collected data deleted. In December 2013, a federal judge granted the government's motion to dismiss, and we successfully appealed.

On appeal, we argued that the call-records program is unconstitutional under the Fourth amendment because the NSA鈥檚 aggregation of metadata constitutes an invasion of privacy and an unreasonable search. We also argued that the call-tracking program violates the First Amendment, because it vacuums up sensitive information about associational and expressive activity.

Finally, we argued that the call-records program violates the statute that supposedly authorized it. Prior to passage of the Freedom Act, Section 215 of the Patriot Act 鈥� also known as the 鈥渂usiness records鈥� provision 鈥� allowed the FBI to obtain secret court orders from the FISC compelling third parties to produce 鈥渁ny tangible thing鈥� that is 鈥渞elevant鈥� to foreign intelligence or terrorism investigations. We argued that the executive branch鈥檚 use of Section 215 goes far beyond what the statute permits. Whatever Section 215鈥檚 鈥渞elevance鈥� requirement might have allowed, it did not permit the government to cast a seven-year dragnet sweeping up every phone call made or received by Americans. The court of appeals agreed.

Following the passage of the USA Freedom Act, the government petitioned the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow the NSA to restart the program, arguing that the new law allows it to continue bulk collection during a 180-day transition period. The FISC granted the petition, but as the 老澳门开奖结果 has argued in a new motion filed with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Freedom Act does not permit bulk collection during the transition period, and even if it did, bulk collection is unconstitutional. The 老澳门开奖结果 has asked the court of appeals to halt the continued collection.

The 老澳门开奖结果 is also currently litigating a challenge to the NSA鈥檚 mass interception and searching of Americans鈥� international communications under the 2008 FISA Amendments Act and a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents about the government鈥檚 use of Executive Order 12,333. We have also filed motions with the FISC asking it to release its secret opinions authorizing the NSA program.