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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10990
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha

US judge says NSA phone tapping is lawful

Brussels, 06/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - On 27 December, a New York judge took an opposite view to that expressed by one of his colleagues in Washington and said that the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance of telephone calls is “lawful”. According to a report by AFP, Judge William Pauley, said that “there is no evidence that the government has used any of the bulk telephony metadata it collected for any purpose other than investigating and disrupting terrorist attacks”...

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