Posted: January 28, 2014 | Author: Dan Klau | Filed under: General Law | Tags: fourth amendment, metadata, nsa |
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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Posted: December 30, 2013 | Author: Dan Klau | Filed under: General Law | Tags: fourth amendment, national security agency, nsa |
In the span of ten days, two federal district court judges have issued diametrically opposed rulings on the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s metadata collection program. One judge said the program is almost certainly unconstitutional, while the other judge said it is perfectly constitutional. Read the rest of this entry »
