The NSA can still monitor them millions by phone calls of Americans conducting from their cell phones.
The US Freedom Act, which is supposed to steal the NSA, seems to be powerless on the means used by the service.
Last Monday, the Supervisory Authority (Foreign market Surveillance Court or FISC) ruled that the NSA can continue to collect data at will for 180 days.
"After examining Amici's views, the court ruled that the continued massive collection of telephony data of the NSA metadata program during this transitional period remains consistent with both the Statute and the Fourth Amendment," the ministry said. US Justice in communication.
"The new primary provision of the Court provides that during the transitional period, and in the absence of a genuine state of emergency, telephone metadata may be collected only after a judicial finding that there is a reasonable, reasonable suspicion that they are linked to an international terrorist organization. . ”
The FISC Supervisory Authority continues to indicate that secret services can collect metadata from the calling party, the receiver's metadata, and all the target and recipient contacts of their calls (!).
In addition, the US government has indicated that it promises to study the decision of the FISC, and to decide whether the content of the screenings should be classified or not.
