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[privacy] Court Denies AT&T Privacy in NSA Hearings
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:15:45 GMT
Big news. Via Red Herring. [snip] A federal judge rejected a move by AT&T to bar the public from Wednesdays hearing into whether the company turned over customer calling records to U.S. spy agencies. The telecom giants attorneys asked for a teleconference so they could argue that spectators and reporters should be locked out of Wednesdays hearing of a class-action lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The company wanted the discussion of critical evidence, including information and internal documents provided by Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, to be hidden from the public. Mr. Klein provided evidence to the EFF. AT&Ts attorneys said some of the documents involve the companys trade secrets and confidential and proprietary business information. However, the court will be open when the hearing is called by Judge Vaughn Walker, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. [snip] Red Herring: http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=16897 Also, more at the EFF: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_05.php#004671 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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