[privacy] Verizon Claims Free Speech Over NSA Wiretapping

[<rms () computerbytesman com>]

In many areas that Verizon provides with phone service via land lines,
Comcast also is offering VOIP service via an Internet connection.

 

More information can be found here about this legal tactic by Verizon:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/verizon_suing_u.html

 

The email address of the CEO of Verizon is:  ivan.g.seidenberg () verizon com

 

Richard

 

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Verizon Claims <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/05/08/1222239.shtml>  Free
Speech Over NSA Wiretapping 


Posted by Zonk <http://slashdot.org/~Zonk/>  on Tuesday May 08, @08:43AM
from the corporations-shold-have-the-right-to-have-babies dept. 

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xvx writes "Verizon is claiming that they have the right
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-verizon-says-phone-record-dis
closure-is-protected-free-speech.html>  to hand over customer information to
the US government under the First Amendment. 'Essentially, the argument is
that turning over truthful information to the government is free speech, and
the EFF and ACLU can't do anything about it. In fact, Verizon basically
argues that the entire lawsuit is a giant SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against
Public Participation) suit, and that the case is an attempt to deter the
company from exercising its First Amendment right to turn over customer
calling information to government security services.'" 

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