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| DATE | 2006-02-01 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] EFF sues AT&T over U.S. wiretapping program
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EFF sues AT&T over U.S. wiretapping program
By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/02/01/effatt/index.php
A civil liberties organization filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T
Corp. Tuesday for collaborating with a U.S. National Security Agency
(NSA) program to intercept Internet and telephone communications of U.S.
citizens without authorization from a court of law.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), based in San Francisco, filed
the suit against AT&T for giving the NSA direct access to its databases
of communications records, including whom their customers had phoned or
sent e-mail to in the past. The suit was filed Tuesday in the United
States District Court of the Northern District of California.
EFF is suing the former AT&T Corp. before it merged with SBC
Communications Inc. to become AT&T Inc., said Kevin Bankston, a staff
attorney with the EFF. However, the suit also is intended to protect
customers of the new AT&T as it continues to merge the operations of the
previously separate companies.
Last December, The New York Times broke the news that U.S. President
George Bush had authorized the NSA to intercept telephone and Internet
communications on the basis of national security without the
authorization of any U.S. court of law. The program started in 2001 and
is still in effect, according to published reports.
According to court papers, AT&T has given the NSA access to several of
its databases, including those code-named Daytona, Aurora and Hawkeye,
which allow the agency to collect information about how AT&T customers
use its communications services. AT&T did not notify customers of the
investigation or the company's role in it, so customers were not given a
chance to consent to it, the group wrote in its suit.
"AT&T aided the NSA in intercepting all or a substantial part of
communications going over their network," Bankston said. "We don't
exactly know what the NSA is doing with that data."
The EFF alleges that this behavior on the part of AT&T violates several
federal laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
(ECPA), he said. It also violates the first and fourth amendments, which
protect U.S. citizens' right to speak freely and not to be subject to
unreasonable searches, Bankston said.
The ECPA was enacted in 1986 as a update to a 1968 law against
wiretapping phones that set out provisions for gaining access to
electronic communications. Among other things, it prohibits the U.S.
government from requiring disclosure of electronic communications from a
service provider without proper procedure.
The EFF is asking the court to award each AT&T customer involved in the
suit about US$21,000 in damages, Bankston said.
AT&T could not be reached for immediate comment on Tuesday.
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