Edward Snowden was right, the NSA has violated our rights

Seven years after it was exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, a federal appeals court has ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of phone metadata was illegal and unnecessary.
Once again, Americans are reminded that government will too often trample over our rights in the name of security when it is neither just nor necessary to do so.
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled on Sept. 2 that “the metadata colle