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[privacy] The Secret Lobbying Campaign Your Phone Company Doesn't Want You to Kn ow About
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:45:59 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Newsweek. [snip] The nations biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve a measure wiping out all private lawsuits against them for assisting the U.S. intelligence communitys warrantless surveillance programs. The campaignwhich involves some of Washington's most prominent lobbying and law firmshas taken on new urgency in recent weeks because of fears that a U.S. appellate court in San Francisco is poised to rule that the lawsuits should be allowed to proceed. If that happens, the telecom companies say, they may be forced to terminate their cooperation with the U.S. intelligence communityor risk potentially crippling damage awards for allegedly turning over personal information about their customers to the government without a judicial warrant. Its not an exaggeration to say the U.S. intelligence community is in a near-panic about this, said one communications industry lawyer familiar with the debate who asked not to be publicly identified because of the sensitivity surrounding the issue. [snip] More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20884696/site/newsweek/ - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFG8s3yq1pz9mNUZTMRArm6AJ0VaMaiw5wkLANAv2mlC6cQHoBb+wCdGB9e 70I1PEUP+tfWHonuMq/vk60= =XVaN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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