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EFF Sues AT&T Over NSA Wiretapping

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the getting-caught-in-the-wrong-bed dept.

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.'"

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  1. For the love of all that's good... by bconway · · Score: 0, Troll

    Someone, please, stop the EFF before it's too late. I know they might think of these things as a "why not, let's give it a shot and see what happens" deal, but these trials and the EFF's continued losses are going to be a serious impact on ALL of our futures. I know, I get a chuckle too after seeing the latest story about how they've been laughed out of court, again, and see how riled up people get over it, but this needs to stop now. Our rights, and our (US citizens) futures may depend on it.

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    1. Re:For the love of all that's good... by maxpublic · · Score: 0, Troll

      Maybe the terrorists are not rational. Maybe they just hate us.

      And so the fuck what? There is no international X-Files-ish conspiracy of evil "terrorists" looking to destroy the United States of America by, uh, the incredibly stupid tactic of blowing up one building at a time. All there are is a few crazed criminals, here and there, some of which, some of the time, manage to cooperate with one another long enough to destroy something. Usually something pretty fucking irrelevent, like two office buildings. Oooh, look how close they came to wiping out the United States when they wasted the Twin Towers! Woe is us!

      Really, if our nation can be overthrown by the simple expedient of knocking down a couple of skyscrapers then we don't deserve to exist in the first place. A nation that overwhelmed by cowardice is just begging for a good beating.

      Let the sheep whine and run for cover every time some government hack starts screaming about color warnings. Let them live their lives in fear, as if some maniac actually gave a shit about some no-name Joe who actually thinks he's important enough to warrant the attention of the Boogeyman.

      There are no terrorists; just crazed loons looking to wreak a little havoc. The assholes who hit the Twin Towers aren't any different than any other bunch of mass murderers; they just managed to make the Guiness Book of World Records on body count. And the people who're using that incident to amass power hit the jackpot big-time with that incident, not because of what those criminals did but because Americans have become spineless fucking pansies pissing their shorts at the sight of their own shadow.

      Max

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  2. Re:this is a mistake by EFF by McGiraf · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're the one that's being a partisant.

  3. Party Politics issue? by JimmytheGeek · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is freedom vs. police state. If your party is for the latter, fuck off.

  4. I dont think it's legal. by Bruha · · Score: 1, Troll

    Americans have a right to search with warrant.. This should apply to your communications. Now if John Doe is calling Osama Bin Laden then there is ample reason to tap that communication.

    The problem is that the government is searching call record databases to see if numbers are calling their list of known bad numbers. Which means they're looking at everyone's calls and not just a select few. Once they find numbers that are calling those known bad numbers they then start the wiretapping.

    Now many people may know care that the government is looking through their call records seeing if you're calling the middle east or other places. If you dont make overseas calls then you're probably not being looked at, but it's possible they're still screening stateside calls to see if you're calling mosques or other suspected terrorist locations in the US.

  5. Re:Want to help? Join the EFF today! by pistis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yep - that clinches it. EFF gets all upset because some of their Al Qaeda buddies (contributing members themselves, no doubt) can't have private phone conversations. Not a penny from me....