Marcia Hofmann of EFF writes: Today the Ninth Circuit postponed a court-ordered deadline for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice to turn over documents concerning a legislative push to give telecom carriers legal immunity for their participation in the government’s warrantless surveillance program. The order comes after three…
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Federal court denies govt attempt to delay release of telecom records. Again.
Kurt Opsahl of EFF writes: Today a federal district court denied the government’s latest emergency motion asking for a 30-day stay in last Friday’s deadline to release records relating to telecom lobbying over last year’s debate over immunity for corporate participation in government spying. The new deadline is October 16, at 4 p.m. Pacific time….
EFF Wins Release of Telecom Lobbying Records
In a clear victory for transparency, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White today ordered the government to release more records about the lobbying campaign to provide immunity to the telecommunications firms that participated in the National Security Agency (NSA)’s warrantless surveillance program. The government has been ordered to provide the records to the Electronic Frontier…
VT regulators drop probe of telecom role in wiretaps
The Vermont Public Service Board has dropped its investigation into whether AT&T and Verizon shared Vermont residents’ telephone calling records with the National Security Agency (NSA). The Board said it was dropping the probe in light of the fact that the FISA Amendments Act passed in 2008 by Congress gave the companies immunity against any…