How Telecoms are Trying to Protect Themselves From Lawsuits Over Privacy Violations
Filed in archive News , Opinion by Rico Mossesgeld on October 4, 2007

It's taken a while for me to discover this story:
The nation's biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the white house, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve a measure wiping out all private lawsuits against them for assisting the U.S. intelligence community's warrantless surveillance programs.
The campaign-which involves some of Washington's most prominent lobbying and law firms-has taken on new urgency in recent weeks because of fears that a U.S. appellate court in San Francisco is poised to rule that the lawsuits should be allowed to proceed.
I'm not based in the US, but I still find this well-financed attempt to earn a get-out-of-jail-free card disturbing nonetheless. Check out the full article on Newsweek.
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