Seattle Post-Intelligencer Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Group sues AT&T over alleged surveillance
By MATTHEW FORDAHL AP TECHNOLOGY WRITER
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A civil liberties group sued AT&T Inc. on Tuesday for its alleged role in helping the National Security Agency spy on the phone calls and other communications of U.S. citizens without warrants.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, seeks to stop the surveillance program that started shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks. It also seeks billions of dollars in damages.
The EFF claims the San Antonio-based telecommunications company not only provided direct access to its network that carries voice and data but also to its massive databases of stored telephone and Internet records that are updated constantly. ]...]
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