US admits NSA illegally collected thousands of emails

A National Security Agency surveillance system illegally gathered up to 56,000 personal emails by Americans annually, declassified court documents show. Officials revealed that a judge in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled the programme illegal in 2011. via Pocket http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23790912#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa