June 23rd, 2009
We're All Iranians Now: US Online Spying...
By Jonathan Eyler-Werve, Talking Points Memo
The US National Security Agency has a legal charter to spy on foreigners online. Unfortunately Internet traffic is nearly impossible to sort by nationality of user, meaning the NSA is snooping on all US Web and email traffic and storing it, with the cooperation of US telecoms companies. This has been extensively documented in court cases filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, including testimony from an AT&T cable technician who worked on dragnet hardware spliced into the Internet backbone cables routed through downtown San Francisco.
Related Issues: NSA Spying
Related Cases: Hepting v. AT&T, Jewel v. NSA, NSA Multi-District Litigation
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