Court Denies AT&T Privacy in NSA Hearings

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

Via Red Herring.

[snip]

A federal judge rejected a move by AT&T to bar the public from Wednesday’s hearing into whether the company turned over 
customer calling records to U.S. spy agencies.

The telecom giant’s attorneys asked for a teleconference so they could argue that spectators and reporters should be 
locked out of Wednesday’s hearing of a class-action lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

The company wanted the discussion of critical evidence, including information and internal documents provided by Mark 
Klein, a retired AT&T technician, to be hidden from the public. Mr. Klein provided evidence to the EFF.

AT&T’s attorneys said some of the documents involve the company’s trade secrets and confidential and proprietary 
business information.

However, the court will be open when the hearing is called by Judge Vaughn Walker, chief judge of the U.S. District 
Court in San Francisco.

[snip]

Red Herring article:
http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=16897

More at the EFF:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_05.php#004671

Evidence against AT&T:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70908-0.html

Background:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70910-0.html

Interesting tidbit on Narus, 'The Ultimate Network Monitoring Tool':
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70914-0.html

- ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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