: Name: Paul Hyland; Location: Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

I'm the executive producer for the web site of a nonprofit publisher of education news, information, and resources, I play in a band, and I work on analyzing and influencing the impact of computers on society. I love my partner in life and my daughter very much.

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Stories about cool events I've attended, musings about social media and other technology, and commentary about people, issues, ideas, whatever. I've had a web site since 1994, at my own domain since 1997, and switched it to blog format in 2005. Now, in 2008, I've added labels, shuffled things around a bit and fixed some style and UI quirks - hence 2.1. Watch for more widgets and microformats....

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Case Dismissed? The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about

This article from Newsweek's web site outlines a VERY scary lobbying campaign by the telcos to enlist the most connected lobbyists in Wasghington to push for a law immunizing them from lawsuits related to (illegal) wiretapping and their enthusiastic embrace of it. They seek to not only stop a class action lawsuit that EFF is pursuing against AT&T. However the immunity sought is so broad that it appears likely to protect phone companies from any action brought regarding surveillance, whether it is currently happening or occurred in the past.

Labels: att, eff, privacy, surveillance, telco