DEA sued for snooping on international phone calls

[Jefferson23]

Apr 8, 2015


Data Privacy Technology Law & Regulation

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's logging of international phone calls made from the U.S. was illegal, advocacy group Human Rights Watch has alleged in a lawsuit filed late Tuesday.

The DEA and the U.S. Department of Justice ran the secret snooping program for decades without judicial oversight, logging "virtually all telephone calls" from the U.S. to as many as 116 countries linked to drug trafficking, according to a USA Today report. The program did not record the content of the calls and was used to fight drug trafficking.


This is yet another government bulk surveillance program used for untargeted and suspicionless surveillance of U.S. citizens, affecting millions of innocent people, said the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which represents Human Rights Watch in the legal action.

According to the EFF, the secret program violates fundamental civil rights. The lawsuit aims to assert the rights of Human Rights Watch and of U.S. citizens to make international calls without being subject to government surveillance, it said.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2907179/dea-sued-for-snooping-on-international-phone-calls.html

[merrily]

1. Does no one care about the Constitution anymore?

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Only us little people. n/t

[merrily]

3. Not even us. Apparently, people don't care that they are being spied on without cause.

That meant a lot to people in 1789. Today, nope.