December 2013 brought two interesting decisions of the US courts related to the NSA's mass information gathering. Unfortunately, the decisions are directly contradicting one another.
The first decision filed 16th December 2013 by the District Court for the District of Columbia emphasised mainly proportionate protection of rights contained within the 4th Amendment.
The second decision dated 27th December 2013 was presented by the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Although the judge labeled mass information gathering as "problematic", it is not, according to him, unproportionate, given the nature of threats it helps to battle.
To sum it up: it is-is not legal.
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