Room 641A
Room 641A ( German: Room 641A ) is the name given to a device for secret surveillance of telecommunications data, which was established in 2003 in a building the company AT & T and made in 2006 by the technicians employed there Mark Klein of the public. This installation was and is the subject of two class actions of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF ) against AT & T " Hepting v. AT & T" and " Jewel v. NSA " in the company and the National Security Agency ( NSA) are accused of the privacy of the customers systematically violated and to have so broken the existing law.
Installation
Through space 641A of 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco fiber optic cable of the Internet backbone, as well as traffic from overseas continues. These were, for example, analyzes of devices the company Narus, which was known for this state of affairs worldwide. In documents from AT & T of the space as a " SG3 [ Study Group 3] Secure Room" was ( German: Study Group 3, safe space ) refers.
Legal proceedings
" Hepting v. AT & T" was a class action lawsuit against AT & T, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ( 9th Cir. ), Filed by the EFF, based on the revelations Klein. After a federal judge rejected the termination of the proceedings on 20 July 2006 after a hearing in order to avoid the opening of proceedings on the part of AT & T and the government of the United States, the procedure was 15 August 2007 before the " 9th Cir. " Opens. With reference to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, AT & T retroactive immunity granted, as the Group cooperated with the authorities. The Supreme Court of the United States refused a hearing. 2008 a criminal case " Jewel v. NSA " was aimed against various government cabinet members George W. Bush and again, the NSA, in which William Binney testified on the basis of the same revelations. Although representatives of the Obama administration strove to close the proceedings because of the possibility of uncovering state secrets, it rejected the competent district judge in August 2013.