AT&T: Safe, But Mocked
Works in more places… I suppose the fake place name would be NSFrancisPying. (Hat tip to an anonymous friend!)
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the Sixth Circuit’s ruling that the plaintiffs in the NSA suit here in Michigan lacked standing. The hard part, of course, is it’s extremely difficult to prove standing here - that’s the whole point of a covert surveillance regime.
So, AT&T is safe legally (especially if President Bush gets his way, and the telcos are immunized from liability), but they deserve this type of ridicule for complying so eagerly with the government’s rather broad surveillance requests. (Diverting all traffic so the NSA can monitor seems, well, overbroad.) Keep your eye on the negotiations in the House.
Filed under: Court Decisions, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, NSA, Privacy, international, national security
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