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Lone Lawyer Sues Obama, Alleging Illegality of Surveillance Programs

posted by n1 on Friday October 24 2014, @10:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the classified-[redacted]-[redacted]-case-dismissed-[redacted] dept.

AnonTechie writes with an article from Ars Technica:

Justice Department lawyers have asked a federal court in Pittsburgh to dismiss a sweeping lawsuit brought earlier this year by a local lawyer against President Barack Obama and other top intelligence officials.

In a new motion to dismiss filed on Monday, the government told the court that the Pittsburgh lawyer, Elliott Schuchardt, lacked standing to make a claim that his rights under the Fourth Amendment have been violated as a result of multiple ongoing surveillance programs.

Specifically, Schuchardt argued in his June 2014 complaint that both metadata and content of his Gmail, Facebook, and Dropbox accounts were compromised under the PRISM program as revealed in the documents leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday October 28 2014, @01:59PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday October 28 2014, @01:59PM (#110851) Journal

    But there is another option that I suggest, which is that skilled groups like ours undertake a program of organized, active resistance to the Masters of the Universe. We built the tools they're using to take our freedom away, so who better than we to turn them around on them?

    Who is John Galt?

    That actually brings up a good point, in a somewhat roundabout way -- we don't really need to *build* the technology, there's quite a bit of it out there already. We have simple to use darknets (Tor; Freenet); we certainly have easy to use encryption technology (truecrypt or whatever replaces it; PGP and the various enabling plugins)...we have the tool already, what we need is *marketing*!

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