NSA versus Verizon - no 4th Amendment Proxy Protection

NSA versus Verizon - San Diego County Political Buzz | Examiner.com

In an effort to test the waters, a large unnamed phone service provider tried to challenge the National Security Agency (NSA) and not pass along the coveted “metadata” the federal intelligence agencies claim is essential to fight the “war on terror.” It didn’t go well for the phone company, on March 20th they were ordered by the court, under double secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Judge Rosemary Collyer to continue breaking the privacy agreements companies make with their customers. The declassified opinion came from a secret “appellate” court most American’s don’t even know it exists.
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In the Verizon case, the FISA judge ruled that Verizon could not bring a Fourth Amendment claim asserting unreasonable search and seizure against its customers because the Fourth Amendment is an individual claim and cannot be asserted by a proxy.
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Therefore, the FISA judge ruled Verizon had no standing to raise unreasonable search and seizure on behalf of its customers under the Fourth Amendment.