Edward Snowden hails ‘victory’ after federal judge rules agency must stop collecting defendants information in a program that is ‘likely illegal’A federal judge ruled against the National Security Agency on Monday,saying that its bulk collection of telephone metadata “likely violates the structure”.
In a case brought by activist Larry Klayman, Washington DC district court judge Richard Leon ruled that the NSA must cease collecting the defendants’ information. Leon said he believed it was “substantially likely” that “the program is illegal”, and that in that event,“the plaintiffs own suffered concrete harm traceable to the challenged program”.
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Source: theguardian.com