Ann Brick, staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, discusses the ACLU v. AT&T and Verizon Cases

The ACLU has sued telecommunications giants AT&T and Verizon to stop them from continuing to provide the National Security Agency (NSA) with the personal phone records of millions of California customers

Since September 11, 2001, the telephone companies have been providing the NSA with customers' records, including phone numbers for incoming and outgoing calls, and time, date, and duration of each call.  This information was turned over without customers’ knowledge or consent, and without any court order, warrant, or other proper legal process.

The three California ACLU affiliates (Northern California, Southern California, and San Diego & Imperial Counties) filed the lawsuits on behalf of 17 individual plaintiffs and more than 100,000 ACLU members statewide.

This podcast is of Ann Brick, staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, discussing these lawsuits (via telephone).