Ryan Singel at Wired blogs/reports that the U.S. federal government plans to intervene in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s case against AT&T for allegedly facilitating the NSA’s warantless domestic surveillance of communications. The government plans to assert the military and state secrets privilege and to seek dismissal of this case.
If it succeeds, the corporate surveillance state will be that much closer to completion. The federal government will be able to secretly collect data from the private sector and prevent information about this surveillance from being debated and litigated. Even more than it already does.
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