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more on COMMENTS REQUESTED -- Apparent large telco liability based on USA Today facts
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:07:07 -0400
As most of you know, I am an EFF Board member. djf Begin forwarded message: From: Brad Templeton <btm () templetons com> Date: May 12, 2006 4:03:09 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: ip () v2 listbox comSubject: Re: [IP] more on COMMENTS REQUESTED -- Apparent large telco liability based on USA Today facts
Dave, I would point those asking to the EFF's lawsuit -- now several months old and having one of its first court hearings on Wednesday in San Francisco -- against
AT&T. http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/It was in fact, one of our primary allegations that they were data mining call records from AT&T's CDR databases. This is expressly prohibited under the law, and our complaint contains the details on the statutes violated and how we
allege they are violated.When we began our case, we had material that had been leaked to the press, and a former AT&T employee who revealed activities he had seen take place in AT&T's San Francisco switching centers. Of course we ask for more information in discovery, though the federal government is attempting to intervene using the official secrets doctrine to block our lawsuit and discovery requests.
The USA Today story revealed a number of new things, including that other
phone companies were involved, that QWest was not, that they did not get FISA warrants nor the required letter from the AG. However, for us atleast, the data mining at AT&T was no shocking revalation. Check out our page and
the legal complaint for full details. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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