The tail end of 2013 brought with it continued news and reaction to the disclosures of the U.S. National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs by former contractor Edward Snowden. Perhaps most significantly, a U.S. federal judge on Friday December 27 ruled the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata on phone calls was legal. The ruling came less than two weeks after another federal judge came to virtually the opposite conclusion. In this roundup for The Privacy Advisor, we gather together the major developments and opinion stemming from Snowden’s disclosures and what may lay ahead in for the NSA in 2014.
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