US court deems NSA bulk phone-call snooping illegal, possibly unconstitutional, and probably pointless anyway

Snowden, privacy campaigners cheer ruling 7 years in the making

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled [PDF] that the National Security Agency's phone-call slurping was indeed naughty, seven years after former contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the tawdry affair....