Phone Phollies

The Christian Science Monitor reports on a supposedly oncoming wave of lawsuits against phone companies for giving up private customer data to the NSA. Reportorial lacuna in this piece: except for an ACLU of Illinois suit against AT & T, the reference in the CSM piece to "From New York to Kentucky to Texas, lawyers specializing in class-action litigation are lining up to sue phone firms alleged to have handed over customer records to the National Security Agency without a court order" is not backed up with a single specific named lawyer, or even direct quote from one wishing to remain anonymous for now. The story is also filled with carefully worded denials from various phone companies. And warning for those suffering from certain allergies: this CSM story contains a quote from Studs Terkel.

Jeff A. Taylor told us last week here on Reason Online about phone companies' tendency to sell us all out. Visit the national ACLU's phone spying action page.

Comments

[Lenny Zimmermann]

Hey, don't forget the EFF lawsuit against AT&T. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004680.php

[Lenny Zimmermann]

Hey, don't forget the EFF lawsuit against AT&T. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004680.php

[Homeland Stupidity]

A lawyer in one of the class-action lawsuits spoke to me on background, saying they are very concerned about the EFF/AT&T case and watching it closely. He tells me there is indeed a wave of oncoming lawsuits.

[American jurors are a bunch of]

He tells me there is indeed a wave of oncoming lawsuits.

Mamma mia, c'est teareeblah! Gosh darn opportunists. It was all in the fine print of the contract. Buyer beware. Suits frivolous -- all dismissed with costs to AT&T.

[Mark Rutherford]

The Libertarian Party of Indiana joins lawsuits filed today in Indiana against the telephone companies. http://lpinscr.blogspot.com/2006/05/lpin-joins-lawsuit-over-actions-of.html