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Secret Surveillance Evidence Unsealed in Telecom Domestic Surveillance Case

Follow up to previous postings on the domestic surveillance program and AT&T’s alleged participation, this press release today: “More documents detailing secret government surveillance of AT&T’s Internet traffic have been released to the public as part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) class-action lawsuit against the telecom giant. Some of the unsealed information was previously made public in redacted form. But after negotiations with AT&T, EFF has filed newly unredacted documents describing a secret, secure room in AT&T’s facilities that gave the National Security Agency (NSA) direct access to customers’ emails and other Internet communications. These include several internal AT&T documents that have long been available on media websites, EFF’s legal arguments to the 9th Circuit, and the full declarations of whistleblower Mark Klein and of J. Scott Marcus, the former Senior Advisor for Internet Technology to the Federal Communications Commission, who bolsters and explains EFF’s evidence. Oral arguments in the 9th Circuit appeal are set for the week of August 13.”

  • the unredacted Klein declaration
  • the internal documents
  • the unredacted Marcus declaration
  • EFF’s 9th Circuit brief
  • more on the class-action lawsuit against AT&T
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