Act locally
On Guy Fawkes Day, a group of Fawkes-masked demonstrators at the corner of First and Virginia protested information gathering activities of the National Security Agency. The U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. last week heard an appeal from federal District Judge Richard Leon’s ruling that the NSA’s indiscriminate collection of bulk metadata is likely unconstitutional, allowing legal action against the NSA to go forward. Leon’s decision read in part, “I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. Surely, such a program infringes on ‘that degree of privacy’ that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment.”
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