ACLU Sues Over New Surveillance Act
from the ain't-over-yet dept
Following Congress granting President Bush the "get out of jail free" card he demanded, it probably comes as no surprise that he's signed the bill into law -- claiming (laughably) that the bill was designed to "protect the liberties of our citizens." It's unclear what in the new bill does that -- though there's plenty that does the opposite. Almost immediately, the ACLU has sued to challenge the constitutionality of the bill, saying that it appears to violate the 4th Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. Meanwhile, the EFF is also preparing to sue over both the telco immunity issue and the expanded surveillance powers. All of these efforts are probably long shots, but it means this isn't over yet.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: fisa, surveillance, telco immunity, wiretapping
Companies: aclu, eff
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I agree with others who have said that the terrorists did not win on September 11th, 2001, but they did on July 9th, 2008.
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Sign the ACLU's ad
https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=Are_you_angry&s_s=aclu_FISA0708__web
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Re: Sign the ACLU's ad
http://www.aclu.org/fisaaction
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OMG - WHO THE @#%^&* do they think they are?
I want to know how Google, AT&T and Yahoo et all have to say about this
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Sooo, did you click on the little link that was for the one time donation? Or did you accidentaly just fill in the first form, which is for a monthly subscription, so to speak? Hope you picked whichever you were going for. The one time donation link was rather tiny. But at least it was before the amounts for the monthly.
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Re: OMG - WHO THE @#%^&* do they think they are?
"That'll be $13.50"?
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Excuse me, Mr. Secret Agent
Once again, Sorry to waste your time.
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Time to get a clue
You write foolishly: "claiming (laughably) that the bill was designed to "protect the liberties of our citizens." It's unclear what in the new bill does that -- though there's plenty that does the opposite."
WRONG!
Get Educated:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c110:./temp/~c110IqRMxH
Techdirt is turning into dirt with such morons like this spouting off when they don't know what they're talking about.
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Re: Time to get a clue
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Resumes too!
Any takers? I'll mortgage everything I have to find a bookie in Vegas to run this. Can't get better odds than this, and I want to become a millionaire before this is done.
PLACE YOUR BETS!
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This issue finally got me to give money to the EFF
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