Groups Join Electronic Frontier Foundation in NSA Lawsuit
Nineteen organizations are joining the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a lawsuit against the National Security Agency, alleging they violated their rights by collecting their phone records.
“You don’t have to have anything to hide in order to be incensed by the state taking your money to watch everything you’re doing,” Shahid Buttar, the executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, one of the plaintiffs, said at a teleconference Tuesday afternoon. “[The] surveillance is offensive in itself.”
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