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aclu v clapper
2. wikimedia v nsa
3. aclu vs nsa
4. doe v gonzales

It is precisely the purposes and the scale of surveillance that differentiates democratic regimes
from police states. Even if there have been transgressions in the past, intelligence services in
democratic regimes in principle do not collect data in mass on large groups of the population,
and if surveillance is undertaken of specific individuals, it is on the ground that collection of data
is deemed necessary to detect and prevent violent actions in the making, not to gather
information on life styles or political opinions.