[privacy] Reports Said to Confirm Lawsuit Linking AT&T to 'Data Mining'

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Mercury News.

[snip]

It's not just phone calls, it's e-mail, too, according to a lawsuit that accuses AT&T of turning over vast amounts of 
domestic phone and Internet traffic to the National Security Agency.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public-interest "digital rights" group with headquarters in San Francisco, said 
Thursday's report in USA Today on an alleged massive telephone-monitoring program appears to confirm allegations made 
in its lawsuit against AT&T. That class-action lawsuit, filed Jan. 31 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, alleges 
that the phone company lets the NSA scoop up voluminous phone and e-mail traffic at AT&T telecommunications centers.

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More here:
http://www.miami.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/14562123.htm

- ferg


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