Brussels, 17/12/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 16 December, a US federal judge questioned the constitutionality of Washington's surveillance programme, the French news agency AFP reports, believing that the large-scale collection of individuals' telephone metadata (such as numbers called and the length of calls) without judicial consent constituted an “invasion of privacy”.
The technology that governs the surveillance programme is “quasi-Orwellian”, in the judge's view. “Surely,...