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

Party Politics issue?

[JimmytheGeek]

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

I dont think it's legal.

[Bruha]

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.