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ACLU Launches Program Against Phone Call Monitoring

Follow-up to previous postings on domestic surveillance of telephone calls, this press release today – ACLU Launches Nationwide Action Against NSA Snooping on Americans’ Phone Calls: “ACLU affiliates in 20 states today filed complaints with Public Utility Commissions or sent letters to state Attorneys General and other officials demanding investigations into whether local telecommunications companies allowed the NSA to spy on their customers.”
Related news:

  • Protesters face off with Verizon, AT&T: “Protesters lined streets on both coasts Wednesday to bring public awareness to the telecommunications policy debates currently going on in Washington, D.C., and to show opposition to the phone companies reportedly providing customer records without a court order to the National Security Agency.”
  • For Telecoms, a Storm of Lawsuits Awaits, by Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor
  • (reg. req’d) from Salon.com: The NSA is on the line — all of them: “An intelligence expert predicts we’ll soon learn that cellphone and Internet companies also cooperated with the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on us.” by Kim Zetter
  • NSA furor shows risks, rewards of info revolution, McClatchy Newspapers, May 24, 2006
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