EFF Speaks Out Against Telecom Immunity Deal

18.06.08 - 22:54 ... source : Electronic Frontier Foundation

... Proposal in Congress Would Let Telecoms Off the Hook for Illegal Spying Washington, D.C. - Congress is widely reported to have struck a deal on legislation to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that includes immunity for telecommunications companies that helped the government illegally spy on millions of ordinary Americans. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) held a press conference with the ACLU to emphasize that this much-touted "compromise" is a sham aimed at letting both the government and the telecoms off the hook for violating the law and the Constitution. "Whatever gloss might be put on it, the so-called 'compromise' on immun ...» Next (HTML)