Government
Nov. 13, 2014
Collect first, sort second, says NSA
Allowing the government to collect first and sort out second would mean that the government could record every phone call and place a video camera in every bedroom, all without triggering the Constitution. By Cindy Cohn
Are you still "secure" in your papers if the government gathers them into a database and searches through them regularly? Do you become more secure if you're pretty sure you aren't targeted by the searches?
These are some of the central considerations facing the three circuit courts considering the National Security Agency's mass collection of telephone records. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard ora...
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