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JoshLowry
12-31-2011, 05:03 PM
In mixed decisions with important implications for government spying on US citizens, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that telecommunications companies have the constitutional right to legal immunity for helping the government eavesdrop on e-mail and telephone communications.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/1230/Court-rules-for-telecoms-role-in-domestic-eavesdropping

Happy New Year!

*vuvuzela*

AGRP
12-31-2011, 06:28 PM
So, by corporations they mean the government.

Are there any constitutional rights that still exist?

LibForestPaul
12-31-2011, 09:44 PM
Nothing to do about corporations or rights or "constitution". Basically the fed (exec, congress, and now court) giving a big FU to the states. WOW...

TurboTenderloin
12-31-2011, 09:46 PM
I'm incorporating myself