Federal judge allows NSA surveillance suit to continue

[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] on Tuesday rejected a motion to dismiss [order, PDF] a lawsuit alleging that the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] illegally surveilled "millions of ordinary Americans" in the wake of 9/11 [JURIST backgrounder]. In 2008 the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [advocacy website] filed a putative class action [complaint, PDF] on behalf of phone and Internet users alleging the NSA used a program of "dragnet...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/federal-judge-allows-nsa-surveillance-suit-to-continue.php

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