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Telecoms Facing $50 Billion Lawsuit for Wiretaps
hdtv writes "According to a MarketWatch article, BellSouth Corp and Verizon Telecommunications are facing lawsuits seeking billions of dollars in damages for the decision to turn over calling records to the government. The damages amount to $1,000 per person, whose records were turned over to Feds. According to the article, 'consumers could sue the phone service providers under communications privacy legislation that dates back to the 1930s. Relevant laws include the Communications Act, first passed in 1934, and a variety of provisions of the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act, including the Stored Communications Act, passed in 1986.'"
I wouldn't be surprised to find me rooting for the terrorists...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I've certainly never seen a period in my life where things were this horribly skewed! I'm relatively sure the original plan on 9/11/01 was to declare martial law, but their plan didn't work out quite right (the part where two of those planes were supposed to attack the legislative branch of the government on Capitol Hill, D.C. (I think it was the Capitol building - I forget the actual name.)
I hope their backup plane which is supposed to occur sometime between now and 2008 doesn't take as many lives as 9/11/01 - who knows if they move it up once the serious indictments start rolling in.
But there hasn't been a serious terrorist attack since 9/11/01 (about that Anthrax, dude). But what if that 9/11/01 wasn't actually a terrorist attack.....
<sarcasm>Curses! All my carefully crafted arguments have been demolished by your stunning 'you are stupid' argument! Everybody knows there's no defense against that!</sarcasm>
If you want to discuss the issue at hand, please do so. If, however, 'you are a stupid-head' is the extent of your debate skills, please don't waste our time.
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Which one of your freedoms has been taken away? I don't remember reading in the Bill of Rights that "no one shall know what phone numbers your phone numbers communicates with". This whole argument is assinine. People should be equally outraged that the government can see -> all the fucking time - where you drive your car simply by watching traffic cameras and monitoring electornic toll booth data. Difference between the Brits and the 'terrorists' that are so easily dismissed by the slashdot crowd? The brits wore uniforms and didn't make civilians the primary target of their millitary operations. Choosing to try and prevent another attack, even if as another fool posted 'america gets such a small share of the terrorist attacks in the world', is a good thing. Politicizing it is the real danger. The people leaking this information should be getting shot. If Bush & Company find some reason for elections not to be held in a couple of years, I'll start worrying about the erosion of American freedoms. Until that happens - which it won't - everything is fine, my life hasn't changed at all and neither has yours, and there are more important things to concern yourself with. Mod me down, the herd commands you.