> 2. Documents are leaked (or evidence otherwise emerges) that the NSA collected data on virtually all of a particular company's calls. Subscribers to that serv

> 2. Documents are leaked (or evidence otherwise emerges) that the NSA collected data on virtually all of a particular company's calls. Subscribers to that service would probably have a good case for stanodding. This already happened in 2007 I believe. AT&T and Verizon phone services were implicated, implying mass violations of the Telecomminications Act of 1998. Congress turned around and have the telecoms retroactive immunity. Because "ignorance of the law is no excuse" only applies to you and me. Companies with millions of dollars worth of lawyers on retainer couldn't possibly have known that it was illegal.