EFF Sues AT&T Over U.S. Wiretapping Program

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The EFF.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T Tuesday, accusing the telecom giant 
of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its 
massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications.

The NSA program came to light in December, when the New York Times reported that the president had authorized the 
agency to intercept telephone and Internet communications inside the United States without the authorization of any 
court. Over the ensuing weeks, it became clear that the NSA program has been intercepting and analyzing millions of 
Americans' communications, with the help of the country's largest phone and Internet companies.

Reporting has also indicated that those same companies—and AT&T specifically—have given the NSA direct access to their 
vast databases of communications records, including information about whom their customers have phoned or emailed with 
in the past. And yet little has been accomplished by this illegal spying: recent reports have shown that the data from 
this wholesale surveillance has done little more than waste FBI resources on dead leads.

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Much more here:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_01.php#004369

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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