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ACLU asks court to shut down NSA surveillance 'for good' | 14 July 2015 | Civil liberties activists on Tuesday asked a federal court to block intelligence agents' bulk collection of Americans' phone data, months after the court called the program illegal. The National Security Agency (NSA) has no authority to continue collecting data about millions of Americans' phone calls, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claimed in a brief filed on Tuesday — but it's doing so anyway. Months after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals said that the controversial program “exceeds the scope of what Congress has authorized,” the advocacy group told the court to shut it down for good.