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Secret Court Upholds Phone Data Collection
cold fjord writes "The Houston Chronicle reports, 'A newly declassified opinion from the government's secret surveillance court says no company that has received an order to turn over bulk telephone records has challenged the directive. The opinion by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Claire Eagan, made public Tuesday, spells out her reasons for reauthorizing the phone records collection "of specified telephone service providers" for three months. ... 'Indeed, no recipient of any Section 215 order has challenged the legality of such an order, despite the explicit statutory mechanism for doing so.'"
Relatedly, the UN Human Rights Council is discussing the surveillance situation.
Yes, and that is exactly the problem. The government has so many laws on the books that they can choose one to punish a CEO with one of those laws arbitrarily. Do you think he is the only telecom CEO who has broken laws? Why do they enforce laws against him, and not others?
In addition, knowing that standing up to the government will leads to cancellation of govt contracts means those other companies have a fiduciary responsbility to their shareholders to keep those contracts in place. They have no such responsibilty to protect their customers privacy.