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Supreme Court declines to stop Verizon metadata handover to NSA
Writ of mandamus petition filed by privacy advocacy group after Snowden leaks.
by Cyrus Farivar Nov 18 2013 Ars Technica
On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear a writ of mandamus petition brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) challenging the legitimacy of Verizon's wholesale handover of metadata to the NSA. The court gave no explanation.
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