Judge TS Ellis III dismissed the suit because it relied on ‘subjective fear’ that National Security Administration collects information that is innately harmfulA federal district court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the National Security Agency.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that the surveillance program was innately harmful,despite the NSA’s silence on it in court. “The NSA’s mass surveillance violates our clients’ constitutional rights to privacy, freedom of speech, and freedom of organization,and it poses a grave threat to a free internet and a free society, said Ashley Gorski, or a staff attorney with the ACLU national security project. “The private communications of harmless people don’t belong in government hands.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com