Sue The Bastards
The treacherous phone companies who’ve been pipelining our personal data into NSA headquarters may be hurting soon:
Orin Kerr, a former federal prosecutor and assistant professor at George Washington University, said his reading of the relevant statutes put the phone companies at risk for at least $1,000 per person whose records they disclosed without a court order.
“This is not a happy day for the general counsels” of the phone companies, he said. “If you have a class action involving 10 million Americans, that’s 10 million times $1,000 — that’s 10 billion.”
I’m not generally a fan of class action lawsuits, as they always seem to bring great wealth to the litigators and tiny pittances to the actual victims, but in this case I’m all for it. Lawsuits could do some actual damage here. There’s already one going in Jersey:
The New Jersey lawyers who filed the federal suit against Verizon in Manhattan yesterday, Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, said they would consider filing suits against BellSouth and AT&T in other jurisdictions.
Sue them all. Sue them twice. And then when you’re done suing them, sue them again. Bleed them into turnips. They deserve all that and more.
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