In an event, two justices of the US Supreme Court, namely Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, confirmed that eventually, the high court would decide on the legality of the NSA surveillance activities despite their acknowledged lack of expertise on the matter.
As the US government's attempt to change its public image in terms of government surveillance, the US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that his administration is planning to stop the collection and storage of phone call data and will seek court approval for every data search, the Wall Street Journal said.
Company sources told Reuters that Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg were one of the many executives of top Internet companies who are set to attend a meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday over privacy, technology and intelligence issues.
The latest leaks of government whistleblower Edward Snowden published on the Washington Post detailed National Security Agency programs MYSTIC and RETRO were used to monitor an entire telephone network-worth of phone calls over a 30-day period of at least five countries.
