Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Washington • Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is planning to notify several federal agencies he will sue them if they don’t settle claims of violation of privacy for an alleged dragnet surveillance program around the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah that purportedly captured all texts, emails and data about phone calls. And he’s looking for other Utahns who want to join the case. Anderson, a longtime critic of the federal government’s domestic spying, says he will notify the Department of Justice, the National Security Agency and the FBI by Aug. 20 that he intends to sue if they don’t settle all claims filed. Claimants, under federal law, could be awarded a minimum of $10,000 each if the agencies acknowledge the claimants’ rights were violated or a court later rules in their favor. Anderson also says he may sue individual agency employees who were aware of or involved in the program, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal in 2013. “This was the most immense, clearly illegal and unconstitutional, indiscriminate wholesale surveillance of the content of communications of people in this country by our government in our nation’s history,” Anderson said Tuesday, adding that it even goes […]
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