<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">The NSA has obtained an FISC order to have Verizon turn over phone data records on all customers until July 19th.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Here's the court order:<br><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">The gist of it from EFF Deeplinks post (<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-millions-americans">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-millions-americans</a>)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a report by Glenn Greenwald, the paper published <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; text-decoration: none; ">an order</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; text-decoration: none; ">Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court</a> (or FISC) that directs Verizon to provide “on an ongoing daily basis” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; ">all</i> call records for any call “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls” and any call made “between the United States and abroad.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In plain language: the order gave the NSA a record of <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; ">every</i>Verizon customer’s call history -- every call made, the location of the phone, the time of the call, the duration of the call, and other “identifying information” for the phone and call -- from April 25, 2013 (the date the order was issued) to July 19, 2013. The order does not require content or the name of any subscriber and is issued under <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1861" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; text-decoration: none; ">50 USC sec.1861</a>, also known as <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/ten-years-later-look-three-scariest-provisions-usa-patriot-act" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; text-decoration: none; ">section 215 of the Patriot Act</a>.</span></p></div></body></html>