The National Security Agency can now gather telephone records as ordered by the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The new electronic spying law gives the NSA the authority to collect personal data if deem necessary.
A U.S. appeals court appeared reluctant on Wednesday to put an immediate halt to the federal government's collection of millions of Americans' phone records, with the controversial spy program set to expire in November.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a judge's ruling that would have blocked the National Security Agency from collecting phone metadata under a controversial program that has raised privacy concerns.