"Big companies say they want to turn the legal tide against
warrant-less wiretapping and other methods used by federal agencies to
conduct secret, sweeping surveillance of Americans online.
Four tech giants – Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo – have filed amicus briefs in support of legal action by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to stop the FBI from indiscriminately issuing National Security Letters, or NSLs, to request customer data from U.S. companies.
Over 300,000 NSLs – which gag the recipient from revealing that such a letter was even received – have been issued in the last decade, according to the EFF.
The briefs – filed on April 7 but kept sealed until May 23 by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco – represent the industry's most forceful legal move yet to fight federal spying on their customers.
"Given that the battle for constitutional freedoms is a never-ending and hard-fought one, the tech giants' better-late-than-never legal filings are welcome news for Internet privacy advocates."
full article at http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/shinal/2014/05/27/online-surveillance-legal-battle/9647639/
Four tech giants – Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo – have filed amicus briefs in support of legal action by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to stop the FBI from indiscriminately issuing National Security Letters, or NSLs, to request customer data from U.S. companies.
Over 300,000 NSLs – which gag the recipient from revealing that such a letter was even received – have been issued in the last decade, according to the EFF.
The briefs – filed on April 7 but kept sealed until May 23 by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco – represent the industry's most forceful legal move yet to fight federal spying on their customers.
"Given that the battle for constitutional freedoms is a never-ending and hard-fought one, the tech giants' better-late-than-never legal filings are welcome news for Internet privacy advocates."
full article at http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/shinal/2014/05/27/online-surveillance-legal-battle/9647639/
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