Friday, April 07, 2006

EFF Sues AT&T over NSA Wiretaps

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing AT&T, alleging that AT&T assisted the NSA in spying on Americans in violation of the law.

Apparently a former AT&T employee gave copies internal AT&T documents detailing what AT&T did, which has AT&T and the NSA concerned.

The suit alleges that the government needed, and received, AT&T's help to get access to people's phone records and the actual content of phone calls and e-mails.