NSA Phone Data Collection Is Illegal, ACLU Says

In a detailed legal attack on the National Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ phone call data, the American Civil Liberties Union argued in court papers that the sweeping data gathering violates the Constitution and should be halted. The ACLU warns of the dangers of large-scale government intrusion into private lives. The new motion, elaborating on the ACLU’s arguments against the data collection, came in a federal lawsuit challenging the NSA program that the group filed in June.