AT&T Spys on American's Internet Usage

EFF and Feds Battle Over Dormant Spy Lawsuit as Immunity Battle Awaits. The Bush Administration and civil liberties groups are fighting over the fate of a frozen appeals court decision in the warrantless wiretapping legal battle, even as the government has yet to use its new powers to have cases dismissed with a mere letter to the judge from the Attorney General. The government is asking a federal appeals court to put a long hold on deciding the fate of a case charging AT&T with helping the government spy on Americans' internet usage, in order to give it time to try to dismiss the case in lower court with powers newly granted to it by Congress. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has been leading a suit against AT&T that has gotten further than most expected, wants the appeals court to throw out the case. . . . (emphasis added).