SafeUM
Home Blog Services Download Help About Recharge

Axarhöfði 14, 110 Reykjavik, Iceland

Iceland - 2015
SafeUM
Blog
Services
Download
Help
About
Recharge
Menu
Archive
TOP Security!
3 Jan 2014

USA Department of Justice intends to seek recognition in court the legality of the NSA surveillance

In December 2013 the District Judge Richard Leon ruled, according to which large-scale surveillance and gathering information about Internet users, implemented the National Security Agency (NSA), the United States, "are likely unconstitutional". 

Now the country's Ministry of Justice hopes that another judge overturned the decision.

U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint on the decision of the judge Leon on December 3. Agency intends to achieve recognition of the legality of surveillance of all citizens. "I am sure that the collection of data on citizens' telephone conversations and analysis violate the customer's expectations of privacy," - said in court Leon.

At the same time in late December, Federal Judge William Pauley that the trial was not presented evidence that the government used the data obtained as a result of wiretapping citizens not suspected of having links with terrorists. Thus, the court upheld the electronic eavesdropping.

Judge Pauley said that using the shadowing U.S. intelligence agencies received information "on virtually every phone call within the U.S., abroad or from abroad." But at the same time, he noted that the legality of such activities should be considered in the context of the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - the right of people to maintain their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Recall that in June this year, a former employee of IT-department of the U.S. National Security Agency Edward Snowden exposed mass program of electronic surveillance of U.S. intelligence. At home he is charged with violation of the laws of the secret information affecting national defense.

Snowden fled from the U.S. to Hong Kong, where he gave several interviews to local publications. August 1st Russian authorities decided to grant temporary asylum Snowden for one year. President Vladimir Putin said that Russia warned Snowden: any of its activities related to damage to US-Russian relations, the Kremlin is unacceptable.

Tags:
surveillance NSA USA
Source:
Allvoices
1809
Other NEWS
3 Jul 2020 safeum news imgage An encrypted messaging service has been infiltrated by police
4 May 2020 safeum news imgage Two-Factor Authentication ​What Is It and Why You Should Use It
12 Dec 2019 safeum news imgage Encryption is under threat - this is how it affects you
4 Nov 2019 safeum news imgage Should Big Decisions Be Based on Data or Your Intuition?
7 Jun 2018 safeum news imgage VPNFilter malware infecting 500,000 devices is worse than we thought
4 Jun 2018 safeum news imgage Hackers target Booking.com in criminal bid to steal hundreds of thousands from customers
1 Jun 2018 safeum news imgage Operator of World's Top Internet Hub Sues German Spy Agency
30 May 2018 safeum news imgage US says North Korea behind malware attacks
29 May 2018 safeum news imgage Facebook and Google targeted as first GDPR complaints filed
25 May 2018 safeum news imgage A new reason to not buy these cheap Android devices
24 May 2018 safeum news imgage Flaws in smart pet devices, apps could come back to bite owners
23 May 2018 safeum news imgage Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of 4.4m UK iPhone users' browsing data
21 May 2018 safeum news imgage LocationSmart reportedly leaked phone location data onto the web
18 May 2018 safeum news imgage The SEC created its own scammy ICO to teach investors a lesson
17 May 2018 safeum news imgage Thieves suck millions out of Mexican banks in transfer heist
All news
SafeUM
Confidential Terms of Use Our technologies Company
Follow us
Download
SafeUM © Safe Universal Messenger

Axarhöfði 14,
110 Reykjavik, Iceland

Iceland - 2015