French Telco Orange Plans To Sue The NSA For Tapping Its Undersea Cables
from the blowback dept
It's not entirely clear what form this will take, but the French telco Orange is claiming that it is planning to file a lawsuit over the news that the NSA has been tapping its undersea fiber optic cables.France-based telecom firm Orange has revealed plans to take legal action against the US National Security Agency (NSA) for using its submarine cable for surveillance.....Again, I'm not sure under what jurisdiction or exactly what kind of lawsuit Orange is intending to bring, but it's yet another bit of blowback against the NSA's overreach in its efforts to spy on absolutely everyone. If Orange is able to succeed, I imagine that a variety of other companies might also look at lawsuits. We're generally highly critical of trade agreements that create corporate sovereignty programs, called "investor state dispute settlement" panels that allow foreign companies to sue governments over interfering with their business, but I wonder if the US's infatuation with these kinds of programs might come back to bite it really hard if it turns out that these mechanisms are used by foreign companies to argue that the NSA has interfered in their business efforts...
An Orange spokeswoman was quoted by Reuters as saying: "We will take legal action in the next few days because we want to know more about the eventuality that Orange data may have been intercepted."
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Well, it's now obvious
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NSA: Well France, you could either sue us[giggles], or we will share our technology with you.
France: Oui oui, o.k. [Crickets]
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NSA shit
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The suit seems to be about getting more information. It is not a formal threat to NSA in any deeper sense.
The future of ISDS will keep the australia-size holes for secret services and a few other government exceptions. Actually this is just a reminder for the administration about the way FOIA can be used against them. Getting more limits to that service is just icing on the cake. Give it some time.
Voila! The problem is out of sight out of mind of the media and the future ISDS will limit the existing FOIA access on account of the new "threat".
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To all Americans
I don't see any of you changing your congress critters out, until then... eat the crow and fuzz up to them.
I understand that is really sounds like trolling, but I am dead serious. Until we change out the diapers that are sitting in the halls of congress none of this changes!
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True, I do not know how you vote, but I still see dirt-bags in congress. If you are not a part of the problem, then you should not be offended by my comment. Even so, we will be eating that crow despite not being guilty of voting evil in.
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NSA Overreach
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/rhetorical.
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Re: Corporate Interests and The Law of The Land
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Pure hogwash.
While it's true that the original case that invented corporate personhood involved the 14th amendment, it's also true that no court has tied corporate personhood itself to the 14th amendment.
Remember, the judge that original court case didn't even rule that corporations had "personhood" (or that they didn't).
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The law of unintended consequences...
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Oh please, the "impression" is that the "impression" is, that the us government is excempt from anything it doesnt want, at least, thats the impression.........i know, the us government "hates" this "surprising" assumption and would gladly have people assume they can sue them
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And they can easily find support in the EU
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Trespass to chattels immediately springs to mind.
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Karma's a bitch.
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what argument ?
same as can you show how the NSA meta-data collection has 'damaged' you financially, that you can show by documentation?
will be interesting to see how this goes, do you think this is a situation that now makes you want to support corporate sovereignty?
So is corporate sovereignty 'good' when you agree with the cause (against NSA) and bad everywhere else? where is your position on this?
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Most likely Admiralty Law. This would be very apt since Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Queen of France actually introduced it to England at the time of Richard the Lionheart (12th Century).
Under this they could go a few routes one of the most interesting being the actual act of Piracy. Now that would make my freakin year!
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...and it's only Jan. 2
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Fair Enough
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