ACLU Files Nationwide Suits Against Wiretaps [View All]

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NEW YORK (AP) -- A civil rights group filed complaints in 20 states Wednesday and invited the public to pressure officials to probe whether phone companies broke laws by sharing customer records with the government's biggest spy agency.

The American Civil Liberties Union announced its ``Don't Spy On Me'' campaign with the complaints to state utility commissions and attorneys general and with a demand that the Federal Communications Commission in Washington look into the matter.

In full-page ads in eight newspapers, the ACLU asked readers to join the formal complaints because, as it said in bold type: ``AT&T, Verizon and Other Phone Companies May Have Illegally Sent Your Phone Records to the National Security Agency.''

The campaign, symbolized by a telephone with an eye on it, urges the members of the public to go to an ACLU Web site to add their names to the complaints about allegations that telecommunications companies illegally cooperated with the NSA to collect calling information patterns on Americans.

ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said in a teleconference Wednesday that the organization was demanding investigations by oversight bodies because Congress has been ``curiously silent'' on the issue and because the public must pressure public officials to do their jobs.

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you can sign the petition here:

https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DTT_FCC_spies_off_line