EFF Documentation Victory in Telco Spying Case 89
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."
Re:Congress is useless. Why bother. (Score:3, Informative)
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 [whitehouse.gov]
I'm sure glad its almost over... again.
Re:Congress is useless. Why bother. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It's not a war, and they volunteered for it. (Score:3, Informative)
AT&T gave feds access to all Web & phone t (Score:3, Informative)
AT&T gave feds access to all Web, phone traffic, ex-tech says
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004001159_spying08.html [nwsource.com]
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