ACLU wants court to block NSA's ongoing phone records collection

The American Civil Liberties Union is taking the NSA back to court over its continued bulk collection of phone metadata records.

Although the law the NSA was using to justify its collection of phone records lapsed on June 1, Congress gave it 180 days to transition to a newer, more narrowly defined process of collecting information.

The ACLU is now contesting that. An appeals court already found that the original law, part of the USA Patriot Act, did not justify the collection of such records, so continuing to hoover up that data is unlawful, ACLU staff attorney Alex Abdo argued before the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, which made the original ruling.

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