The ACLU earlier this week filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the NSA from indiscriminately snooping on U.S. Internet traffic. Using a technique called “upstream” surveillance, the NSA does a spinal tap of the Internet’s U.S. backbone, which carries the communications of millions of Americans, the ACLU explained in its complaint filed with a federal district court in Maryland. “In the course of this surveillance, the NSA is seizing Americans’ communications en masse while they are in transit,” the complaint alleges.
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Lawsuit Challenges NSA Internet Dragnets
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 13, 2015 11:02 AMThe ACLU earlier this week filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the NSA from indiscriminately snooping on U.S. Internet traffic. Using a technique called “upstream” surveillance, the NSA does a spinal tap of the Internet’s U.S. backbone, which carries the communications of millions of Americans, the ACLU explained in its complaint filed with a federal district court in Maryland. “In the course of this surveillance, the NSA is seizing Americans’ communications en masse while they are in transit,” the complaint alleges.