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Is The NSA’s Telephone Meta-Data Program Constitutional?

Posted: January 28, 2014 | Author: Dan Klau | Filed under: General Law | Tags: fourth amendment, metadata, nsa | Leave a comment

Having taught privacy law at the University of Connecticut School of Law since 2003, I have followed the discussions about the legality of the National Security Agency’s telephone “meta-data” surveillance program with great interest.  In this context, meta-data refers to the non-content attributes of telephone communications, such as the numbers called, the length of the call and the frequency of calls to particular numbers.  Three questions are of particular interest:

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