The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T today, leveling the accusation that the telecom giant violated the first and fourth amendments of the US constitution as well as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) by collaborating with the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. The EFF lawsuit alleges that AT&T provided the National Security Agency (NSA) with access to two enormous databases containing detailed customer calling records and internet addresses accessed.
One of the databases—called “Hawkeye” according to Ryan Singel’s account for Wired News—contains more than 300 terabytes of data “detailing nearly every telephone communication on AT&T’s domestic network since 2001.”
The lawsuit seeks up to US$22,000 per AT&T customer plus punitive damages.
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