美法院:国家安全局可恢复搜集电话数据

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

美国一家法院做出判决，国家安全局可以暂时恢复大规模搜集美国人电话通话数据的项目。

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

外国情报侦察法庭星期一裁定，国家安全局可以恢复大规模搜集美国人的电话通话数据，包括通话时间、日期和时长，以寻找与外国恐怖分子联系的线索。

The program was suspended after an appeals court in May ruled that the U.S. Patriot Act hadnever authorized the NSA to collect such data.

一家上诉法院今年5月做出裁决说，美国爱国法案从未授权国家安全局搜集此类数据，因此这一项目被中止。

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

该项目于6月1日失效的一天后，美国总统奥巴马签署了一项叫做“自由法案的新法律，对大规模搜集电话通话数据项目进行了重大改革和缩减。

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

星期一晚间做出的判决允许该项目根据新法律恢复运作180天。在这六个月内，国家安全局将建立一个替代性系统，使电信公司得以储存有关数据。