EFF Sues Government Agencies, Officials in Surveillance Fight

摘要

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop what it called the "illegal, unconstitutional, and ongoing dragnet surveillance" allegedly being led by the National Security Agency. EFF called the lawsuit the "second front" in its battle to stop the NSA's surveillance program, following the ongoing class-action lawsuit against AT&T, Inc., for allegedly participating the in the program. The lawsuit, filed Sept. 18 in. federal district court for the Northern District of California, names the NSA, the Department of Justice, and a number of individual government officials as targets. Jewel v. NSA relies on the same evidence used in the Hepting v. AT&T lawsuit, which is currently focused on the question of whether immunity granted to AT&T and other telecommunications companies is constitutional, but focuses on the question of whether the government could engage in the alleged surveillance activities.