The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a motion for partial summary judgment in the Jewel v. NSA case, which focuses on the Government’s admitted seizure and search of communications from the Internet backbone.
The EFF said that it has asked the judge to rule that there are two ways in which this is unconstitutional under the US Fourth Amendment: over the admitted seizure of communications from the internet backbone, and for the Government’s admitted search of the entire communications stream, including the content of communications.
The EFF said that it hoped that this shifts the conversation around the world to how the surveillance actually happens, “rather than the U.S. government’s self-serving word games about it”.
