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Court Rejects Government’s Secrecy Claims in EFF’s Hemisphere Suit

• tolien 10y ago
  The missing exclamation mark ("Victory! Court...") from the article's title really changes the way this reads.
  • DiabloD3 10y ago
    The weird part is, I put a ! originally, and HN's software gave no indication that it'd strip it after submission.
    • BuuQu9hu 10y ago
      It always does that.
• akiselev 10y ago
  TLDR: in 2013 a Seattle activist got a presentation on Hemisphere (a program that allowed the NSA to access AT&T's call records database) accidentally due to a standard FOIA request. The EFF sued after it was denied further information from their own FOIA request and now the courts have ruled that the government used unfounded FOIA exemption claims to heavily redact or withhold 260 pages. These pages will now go through a detailed review and released after proper redaction.
• kodablah 10y ago
  This would be an ideal opportunity for the other 3 of the big 4 domestic telcos to come out, if they can, and expressly say that they do not have a similar operation. The optimist in me hopes they will, the realist in me acknowledges that they all have programs that provide warrantless access to this information.