As most of you know, I am an EFF Board member. djf
Begin forwarded message:
From: Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 12, 2006 4:03:09 PM EDT
To: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
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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