more on COMMENTS REQUESTED -- Apparent large telco liability based on USA Today facts

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

As most of you know, I am an EFF Board member. djf

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From: Brad Templeton <btm () templetons com>
Date: May 12, 2006 4:03:09 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on COMMENTS REQUESTED -- Apparent large telco  
liability based on USA Today facts


Dave, I would point those asking to the EFF's lawsuit -- now several  
months old and
having one of its first court hearings on Wednesday in San Francisco  
-- against
AT&T.

http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/

It was in fact, one of our primary allegations that they were data  
mining call
records from AT&T's CDR databases.   This is expressly prohibited  
under the law,
and our complaint contains the details on the statutes violated and  
how we
allege they are violated.

When we began our case, we had material that had been leaked to the  
press, and
a former AT&T employee who revealed activities he had seen take place  
in AT&T's
San Francisco switching centers.   Of course we ask for more  
information in
discovery, though the federal government is attempting to intervene  
using
the official secrets doctrine to block our lawsuit and discovery  
requests.

The USA Today story revealed a number of new things, including that  
other
phone companies were involved, that QWest was not, that they did not get
FISA warrants nor the required letter from the AG.  However, for us at
least, the data mining at AT&T was no shocking revalation.   Check  
out our page and
the legal complaint for full details.


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