From EFF (via BoingBoing) – ‘EFF Challenges Constitutionality of Telecom Immunity in Federal Court’:
“The immunity law puts the fox in charge of the hen house, letting the Attorney General decide whether or not telecoms like AT&T can be sued for participating in the government’s illegal warrantless surveillance,” said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. “In our constitutional system, it is the judiciary’s role as a co-equal branch of government to determine the scope of the surveillance and rule on whether it is legal, not the executive’s. The Attorney General should not be allowed to unconstitutionally play judge and jury in these cases, which affect the privacy of millions of Americans.”
Read the whole article here!
EFF rules (!) and is one of the sharpest swords against the non-democratic laws being set all over the world. I do not live in the US, but I surely hope that they’ll win this one. If so, maybe they will regain some of their lost freedom.
