{"id":50530,"date":"2015-05-07T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/so-maybe-now-we-can-have-a-debate-about-nsa-data-collection.html"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:20:31","slug":"so-maybe-now-we-can-have-a-debate-about-nsa-data-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/so-maybe-now-we-can-have-a-debate-about-nsa-data-collection.html","title":{"rendered":"So maybe now we can have a debate about NSA data collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appellate court has ruled that the NSA&#39;s interpretation of the PATRIOT Act &sect;215 is incorrect, and it can&#39;t vacuum up the metadatda for every phone call in the US willy-nilly.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have little doubt that if the NSA goes back to Congress and asks them, when PATRIOT is up for renewal next month, to clarify that this <i>is<\/i> in their mandate, Congress will eventually roll over for them. But let&#39;s at least <i>have<\/i> that public discussion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/breaking-news-federal-court-rules-nsa-bulk-data-collection-illegal\/?mbid=social_gplus'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ezGdQxkcZ2XbbQJXtVGIbs8bCJvUEZpVe52hQ0Ps5wAjJDaGC3Z6LvX6yMxQSAEdeK4vT2FSfX61oKo05Y4mneNYKGwPwuM7uBwDij39nZoimGc4H94NVKfeqoedcaHAbeseei3Ylj2JOpO2=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/breaking-news-federal-court-rules-nsa-bulk-data-collection-illegal\/?mbid=social_gplus'>Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Was Never Authorized By Congress<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/QHTdGeCYvvR'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appellate court has ruled that the NSA&#39;s interpretation of the PATRIOT Act &sect;215 is incorrect, and it can&#39;t vacuum up the metadatda for every phone call in the US willy-nilly. Now, I have little doubt that if the NSA goes back to Congress and asks them, when PATRIOT is up for renewal next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/so-maybe-now-we-can-have-a-debate-about-nsa-data-collection.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So maybe now we can have a debate about NSA data collection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51325,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/the-temporary-fall-of-the-patriot-act.html","url_meta":{"origin":50530,"position":0},"title":"The (temporary) fall of the PATRIOT Act","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Jun-15 4:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 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