Reply #31: Read this: "Law Firm Files Suit to Bar Outsourcing of Client Data" [View All]

I just read this over in the Editoral Form posted by OhioChick:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x361462
Law Firm Files Suit to Bar Outsourcing of Client Data

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Joseph Hennessey, name partner at Newman McIntosh & Hennessey, turned to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on May 7 seeking a ruling on the outsourcing of privileged client data that may be subject to eavesdropping by the U.S. government.

Hennessey, who in 2005 wrote this column for Legal Times on the Fourth Amendment and privacy rights, says foreign companies have no presumption of privacy because the National Security Agency is free to spy on them without constitutional constraints.

"We are really heading toward a collision between globalized economic interests and the limited extension of constitutional rights," Hennessey says.

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"It seeks this declaration knowing that foreign nationals who reside overseas lack Fourth Amendment protections," says the firm's complaint for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief. "It seeks this declaration having been informed ... that the United States government engages in pervasive surveillance of electronically transmitted data."

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Just one more clever way for the government and enemies to invade privacy.

As an aside, ordinarily I wouldn't have borrowed and posted another DUer's snippets, I would have just posted the thread's link here. But after reading your post, the ramifications of our privacy being breached is very real. I'm glad OhioChick posted that article.