This Week, Mass Surveillance Wins By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published: December 27, 2013 Has the National Security Agency's mass collection of Americans' phone records actually helped to prevent terrorist attacks? Related News No, according to the 300-page report issued this month by a panel of legal and intelligence experts appointed by President Obama. Yet in a ruling issued on Friday, Judge William Pauley III of the Federal District Court in Manhattan came to the opposite conclusion. "The effectiveness of bulk telephony metadata collection cannot be seriously disputed," Judge Pauley wrote in a deeply troubling decision dismissing a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union that challenged the constitutionality of the N.S.A.'s bulk data collection program. [...] continua qui http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/opinion/this-week-mass-surveillance-wins.h... qgl