美法院:國家安全域性可恢復蒐集電話資料

A U.S. court has ruled that the National Security Agency can temporarily resume its bulk collection of Americans' telephone records.

美國一家法院做出判決，國家安全域性可以暫時恢復大規模蒐集美國人電話通話資料的專案。

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Monday ruled that the NSA could resume gathering millions of Americans’ phone metadata — call times, dates and durations — to scan for links to foreign terrorists.

外國情報偵察法庭星期一裁定，國家安全域性可以恢復大規模蒐集美國人的電話通話資料，包括通話時間、日期和時長，以尋找與外國恐怖分子聯絡的線索。

The program was suspended after an appeals court in May ruled that the U.S. Patriot Act had never authorized the NSA to collect such data.

一家上訴法院今年5月做出裁決說，美國愛國法案從未授權國家安全域性蒐集此類資料，因此這一專案被中止。

A new law, called the Freedom Act, which substantially reformed and narrowed the bulk phone data program, was signed by U.S. President Barack Obama a day after the existing program lapsed on June 1.

該專案於6月1日失效的一天後，美國總統奧巴馬簽署了一項叫做“自由法案”的新法律，對大規模蒐集電話通話資料專案進行了重大改革和縮減。

The ruling late Monday allows the program to resume for 180 days, in compliance with the new law. The six month period was designed to give the NSA time to set up an alternative system in which the data is stored by the phone companies.

星期一晚間做出的判決允許該專案根據新法律恢復運作180天。在這六個月內，國家安全域性將建立一個替代性系統，使電信公司得以儲存有關資料。