A US appeals court ruled that the NSA's mass collection of phone call records is illegal, not authorized by the PAT RIOT Act.

More court procedure is required before the NSA may be ordered to stop. And only a future Snowden will tell us whether the NSA really did stop. If it instead invented another pretext, only a future Snowden will enable us to find out about it and sue again.

Keep in mind that there are many systems of massive surveillance. To make journalism and democracy safe, we must curb allof them.