EFF Documentation Victory in Telco Spying Case

Krishna Dagli sent on a link to Ars Technica's coverage of an EFF victory in a court case related to the NSA/Telco spying scandal. "Judge Vaughn Walker ruled today that AT&T, Verizon, Cingular (now part of AT&T), Sprint, and BellSouth (also part of AT&T now) must all maintain any data or papers related to the NSA spying case that Walker is overseeing in California. The EFF had requested the ruling out of concern that documents would be destroyed as part of routine data deletion practices before the case could even progress to discovery."

Comments

Re:Congress is useless. Why bother.

[vux984]

Maybe you should check the news about our failures more often.

I think we've been here before. Once bitten twice shy and all that.
Indeed, this press release, for example is *very* encouraging:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030501-15.html

I'm sure glad its almost over... again.

Re:Congress is useless. Why bother.

[Sique]

Given that Iraq has at least 100,000 deaths (that's according to the U.S. Army, other sources estimate 250,000 and more) due to homicide and war since 2003, that's four years and on average 25,000 each year. The death poll of Saddam Hussein's rule is put at 300,000 for the whole of more than 30 years, which results in 10,000 per year. Basicly the death rate has more than doubled since the starting of the Iraq war.

Re:It's not a war, and they volunteered for it.

[Kazrath]

I like how you try spin it into meaning that America is killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. You do realize that we are not forcing dumbasses to strap bombs to their chests walk into a market and detonate. This shit was happening before we even stepped foot into Iraq it just was not in the news. Now these religious factions just have a way of justifying these horrendous acts they are inflicting on the civilians.

AT&T gave feds access to all Web & phone t

[John Sokol]

AT&T gave feds access to all Web, phone traffic, ex-tech says

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004001159_spying08.html

  he alleged that the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the help of AT&T and without obtaining a court order.

NSA built a special room in San Francisco to receive data streamed through an AT&T Internet room containing "peering links," or major connections to other telecom providers. Other so-called secret rooms reportedly were constructed at AT&T sites in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose, Calif