An illustration picture shows a network cable next to a pack of smartphones in Berlin, June 7, 2013. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
WASHINGTON: The secretive US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has issued its first order allowing the National Security Agency to collect telephone records under a new electronic spying law Congress passed last year.
According to an order from the court posted April 19 on a website operated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the court issued the order on Dec 31.
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