The issue focused on two National Security Agency surveillance programs involving bulk Internet data collection and computer data stored on hard drives, which were revealed by Edward Snowden, a contractor for the NSA.


The court ruled that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of e-mails and Internet data can be challenged in court as an invasion of privacy and as "indiscriminate" surveillance of American citizens.


The company's case was an unusual one because it concerned the legality of computer data stored on disks in computers