EFF Sues AT&T Over NSA Wiretapping

Omega1045 writes "Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing is reporting that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has just filed a lawsuit against AT&T for helping the National Security Agency execute illegal warrant-less wiretaps against American citizens. From the article: 'The lawsuits alleges that AT&T Corp. has opened its key telecommunications facilities and databases to direct access by the NSA and/or other government agencies, thereby disclosing to the government the contents of its customers' communications as well as detailed communications records about millions of its customers, including the lawsuit's class members.'"

Comments

Re:For the love of all that's good...

[evil agent]

Wow, you just gave a good argument justifying the Iraq War. Hurry up and retract before you're banned from /.!!

next up on the list of frivolous lawsuits:

[c6gunner]

31 Jan 2006
C6gunner sues NYTimes for "reckless endangerment".

C6gunner, claiming that by releasing classified information during a time of war the New York Times has knowingly endangered the lives of not just Americans, but all residents of North America, has launched a class-action lawsuit demanding $10,000 for every individual legaly residing on the North American continent.

Whether the ammount requested was in Canadian or US currency was unclear.

Film at 11.

Re:What can we, as individuals, really do?

[SilverspurG]

Imagine a cancerous lump the size of your fist in your stomach. A single vote is like taking a single cell out of that lump. We've long past the point where the votes of the people mean anything. There are too many cancerous cells constantly respawning to replenish the tumor. Even movements as large as the Greens, the Libertarians, or a well funded independent such as Perot result in no real change.

I can only assume that your attitude comes from a position of comfort and probably privelege. The nobility has never had a problem with the royalty no matter how many commoners must be imprisoned or outright killed to preserve their authority. In today's society we don't even need to be imprisoned to be rendered completely ineffective. At the wage level of the average American household the people work too much, pay too much in taxes, have too much responsibility to family and friends, to have any time left for political vigilance.

Re:TLA truck overturns on the turnpike

[mr_tenor]

patched version for better acronym coverage:

YRO: EFF vs ATT re NSA FUBAR

BB's CD:
EFF vs AT&T re: NSA USC H4X0R
FTA: "SNAFU: NSA & etc. GAs pwn NOCs, POTS, & DBs w/ ATT"

Need to get rid of the pwn, & and w/ somehow I think...

what?

[Flunitrazepam]

I don't understand how this relates to GOOGLE at ALL.

Re:TLA truck overturns on the turnpike

[JWtW]

I don't usually do this....especially with the low UID folks. Boy, you guys are smart!
But, there was a time when the article was picked apart, then the article summary was all wrong, and nobody read the article, but now you're not even reading the summary, and the HEADLINE is hosing you up? Wow, are we so pressed for time that we don't read, or are we just picking--just to pick?.....

"Excuse me, where's my latte?"

Re:TLA truck overturns on the turnpike

[tomhudson]

It's because the first poster was modded as flamebait for criticizing the excessive use of alphabet soup/acronyms. Not everyone here knows who the EFF and the NSA are - yet :-)

Besides, its Troll Tuesday - we have to have some funonce in a while ... we can't just leave it to the GNAA.

Evidence Bush is out of control and his mind

[buss_error]

Got this off CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush's State of the Union address.

Q. Since when is expressing a political opinion a crime in the United States?
A.Since King George took over the White House.