constitutional rights of free speech, association, and privacy.

This lawsuit was file one day after the ACLU submitted a motion to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) seeking the release of secret court opinions on the Patriot Act’s Section 215, which has been interpreted to authorize this warrantless and suspicionless collection of phone records.

The ACLU stated that it is “an organization that advocates for and litigates to defend the civil liberties of society’s most vulnerable, the staff at the ACLU naturally use the phone—a lot—to talk about sensitive and con-fidential topics with clients, legislators, whistleblowers, and ACLU members. And since the ACLU is a VBNS cus-tomer, we were immediately confronted with the harmful impact that such broad surveillance would have on our...

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