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NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal

Adam Levin

Under the NSA program, information and metadata from calls placed by U.S. citizens were collected in bulk and screened for possible connections to terrorist activity. T]he government may have violated the Fourth Amendment when it collected the telephony metadata of millions of Americans[…]” stated the ruling. .

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Most of that focus has centered on data collection, storage, sharing, and, in particular, third-party transactions in which customer information is harnessed for advertising purposes. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? 11 See, e.g. , Am.

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