Roughly a year and a half since the first Snowden disclosures, - TopicsExpress



          

Roughly a year and a half since the first Snowden disclosures, theres already been a judicial order to shut down the National Security Agencys bulk metadata collection program. The lawsuit filed by Larry Klayman, a veteran conservative activist, would essentially put a stop to unchecked NSA surveillance. And at the start of 2015, he remains the only plaintiff whose case has won when fighting for privacy against the newly understood government monitoring. However, its currently a victory in name only—the judicial order in Klayman was stayed pending the government’s appeal. Klayman v. Obama is only one of a number of notable national security and surveillance-related civil and criminal cases stemming fully or partially from the Snowden documents. In 2014, a handful of these advanced far enough through the legal system that 2015 is likely to be a big year for privacy policy. One or more could even end up before the Supreme Court.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:26:08 +0000

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