This week, a panel of federal judges will review the legality of the U.S. National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of phone records, The Wall Street Journal reports. The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday at the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and its New York affiliate days after the earliest Edward Snowden revelations in June 2013. In the suit, the ACLU argues that the collection of phone metadata, which includes time, call duration and numbers, is a privacy violation and violates federal law. Two of the judges on the panel sided with an earlier suit brought by the ACLU against the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the report states. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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