The House of Representatives passed a law reforming some of the NSA’s bulk data collection practices, but critics charge that the changes don’t go nearly far enough.
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A U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled, in essence, that the NSA’s collection of metadata concerning Americans’ communications is illegal. The court vacated U.S. District Judge William Pauley’s December 2013 ruling in ACLU v. Clapper, and remanded the case to the lower court. Pauley had granted the government’s motion to dismiss the ACLU’s complaint and denied the ACLU’s motion for a preliminary injunction. “The Second Circuit found the government incorrect in many of its arguments,” said ACLU Staff Attorney Patrick Toomey.
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The NSA’s wide-ranging surveillance of people’s communications worldwide is hitting America’s high-tech industry hard, said panelists on Wednesday at a roundtable held by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden in Palo Alto, California. Wyden set the tone from the start: “This is going to cost America jobs.” Several foreign governments are planning to build domestic Internets, and Brazil is concerned about storing data abroad, he added. U.S.-based cloud service providers could lose up to one-fifth of their foreign market share, Wyden said.
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