The Department of Justice has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a term limit extension for how long it can retain telephone metadata beyond the current five years, citing civil suits regarding the data, IDG News Service reports. In a filing made public on Wednesday, the DoJ wrote, “A party may be exposed to a range of sanctions not only for violating a preservation order, but also for failing to produce relevant evidence when ordered to do so because it destroyed information that it had a duty to preserve.” The American Civil Liberties Union, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles have filed civil suits challenging the phone metadata collection program.
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