Wired

It’s Time to End the NSA’s Metadata Collection Program

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” the adage goes. But for the sunset of Patriot Act authorities later this year—including Section 215, a controversial provision that allows the National Security ...
Dark Reading

Collection of Metadata -- as Done by the NSA -- Likely Unconstitutional, US Court Suggests

A post-9/11 program that enabled the mass collection of telephone, cellular, and text metadata by the US National Security Agency (NSA) likely violated the constitution, a three-judge panel of the US ...
Gizmodo

Report: The NSA’s Domestic Metadata Collection System Is Not Being Used and May Be Discontinued

The National Security Agency has “quietly shut down” the mass surveillance program it implemented after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to analyze metadata ...
The Daily Dot

NSA metadata collection program swept up Americans’ credit card numbers

The Office National Intelligence released a trove of newly declassified documents Tuesday, detailing the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance operations. As Matthew Keys reported on ...
Homeland Security Today

ANALYSIS – Phone Metadata: Constitution Vests Authority to Collect Foreign Intelligence Information Directly in the President

On May 7, in ACLU v. Clapper, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that the controversial National Security Agency (NSA) telephone metadata collection program—involving the court-ordered ...
JD Supra

Second Circuit Rules PATRIOT Act Does Not Authorize Government's Bulk Telephone Metadata Collection Program

The ruling is a significant development in the executive, legislative and judicial struggle to strike the right balance between protecting privacy and protecting national security. In yet another ...
The Atlantic

FISC Approves Phone Metadata Collection Changes

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court announced today that it has approved President Obama's request to change to the NSA's section 215 metadata collection program. Obama did not choose to end ...
The Atlantic

Here's Another Analysis of How Useless the NSA's Metadata Collection Program Is

Though NSA supporters say the program is an effective tool against terrorism and has prevented attacks in the past, a new study by a nonpartisan think tank found that its contribution has been minimal ...
Digital Trends

Court gives the NSA permission to continue phone metadata collection for now

In a decision that is sure to irk privacy advocates, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled that the National Security Agency (NSA) can temporarily resume its once-secret bulk collection of ...
Aclu.org

My Life in Circles: Why Metadata is Incredibly Intimate

One of the most disingenuous arguments in the aftermath of the NSA spying revelations is that the American people shouldn't be concerned about the government hoovering up its sensitive information ...
Fast Company

CIA nominee dodges question on whether he still supports a return to the “metadata collection business”

During his confirmation hearing today, Mike Pompeo was confronted over his prior advocacy of a new law to once again allow the government to collect metadata. Senator Ron Wyden grilled Pompeo on an op ...