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The U.S. Supreme Court could soon be asked to decide the constitutionality of the federal government'smassive data collection of phone records after two lawsuits challenging the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance program have begun to inch forward in federal circuit court for the first time. The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy rights groups have denounced the NSA'sdata collection program, first revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden last summer.

"The phone-records program under which the NSA collects a record of the calls made by millions of Americans every single day is perhaps the most sweeping surveillance operation ever directed against the American public by our government," Alex Abdo, an ACLU staff attorney, said in astatementTuesday. "It raises profound questions about the role of government in a democracy and about the future of privacy in the digital era. And it threatens our constitutional rights in ways unimaginable by the founders of our country."

The NSA stores information about calls received and made on major U.S. telephone networks, including the time and length of the calls. The government claims it uses the information to track terrorist suspects.

ACLU lawyers called the surveillance program unconstitutional Tuesday in an oral argument before theSecond U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. The DC Circuit Court is set to hear arguments in a similar case on Nov. 4. The surveillance program has previously been debated in district courts. An appeal in either circuit court case could come before the Supreme Court.

The U.S. government argued in court papers that the ACLU and other groups suing over the data collection program lack legal standing because they cant show their telephone data was reviewed by the NSA. The ACLU lawsuit was filed in June 2013, days after Snowden disclosed the program.

Members in both houses of Congress have proposed laws to overhaul the data collection program,but they are unlikely to be acted on this year, said the Wall Street Journal.

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The NSA GCHQ are nothing more than Cyber-Terrorist groups. These guys commit more online crime than the rest of the world combined. SHUT THEM DOWN! PRISM - http://www.2shared.com/document/1NiK3Q...

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A panel of federal judges voiced significant concerns Tuesday about the privacy implications of NSA surveillance tactics during a wide-ranging hearing on a legal challenge brought by the ACLU.

In an oral argument that was set for less than 30 minutes and lasted nearly two hours, three judges on a panel hearing the case at the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan probed claims by the ACLU that the federal government's collection of data relating to "every phone call made or received by residents of the United States" is illegal and unconstitutional.

The ACLU appeal challenged a lower courts decision to uphold the NSA's mass bulk data collection of phone records.

Judges Gerard Lynch and Vernon Broderick were appointed by President Obama. Judge Robert Sack was appointed by President Clinton. At some point, each expressed significant concern about the privacy implications of allowing the federal government broad access to a wide range of information without any specific suspicion of wrongdoing.

Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery first argued that federal courts do not have jurisdiction to review disputes regarding the NSA program. In addition, Delery argued the program is constitutional and has been repeatedly renewed by Congress.

Lynch asked how well briefed members of Congress were before voting, and questioned how much they understood about the program. At one point, Sack chimed in, "We don't know what we don't know"about NSA operations.

Lynch and Broderick both questioned why the government's justification for the bulk phone data collection program would not also extend to bank records, credit card transactions and other personal data. Lynch asked if the government's argument would not also entitle it to access "every American's everything."

Both sides acknowledged that President Obama has publicly stated that there are other ways to get the relevant intelligence, short of the sweeping NSA bulk data collection program that now exists.

That prompted Lynch to ask, if that was the case, why government attorneys were there to argue otherwise.

The panel also discussed the need for federal agencies such as the FBI and NSA to be able to move quickly when connecting dots on the intelligence landscape, acknowledging that having bulk data already at its disposal would speed the process.

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