While the 2008 federal legislation permitting wiretapping with a warrant (the FISA Amendments Act, or FAA) disturbed a lot of people at the time, the issue has not been laid to rest. The latest to weigh in against the legislation is the White House, which says it will seek to overturn the ruling of a lower court that cleared the way for lawsuits and will ask the Supreme Court to rule on the right of a coalition of groups to challenge warrantless wiretapping.
One of those groups is WOLA, the Washington Office on Latin America, which says the issue is about privacy rights.
“When people in Latin America are talking on the phone to WOLA, they need to be confident that they are talking with us and not with the U.S. government. Knowing that our conversations can be monitored could affect people’s willingness to speak freely with us,” said Joy Olson, WOLA’s Executive Director, in a press release... Read More
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