ACLU launches 20 state campaign to end NSA call data program

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Responding to reports that phone companies are turning over records relating to Americans' telephone calls to the National Security Agency, the American Civil Liberties Union today launched a 20-state campaign to end government surveillance programs they claim are illegal, RAW STORY has learned.

ACLU affiliates in 20 states today filed complaints with Public Utility Commissions or sent letters to state Attorneys General and other officials demanding investigations into whether local telecommunications companies allowed the NSA to spy on their customers.

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As part of the nationwide campaign, the ACLU today is running full-page advertisements in The New York Times, Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Portland Press Herald (Maine) and the San Francisco Chronicle. The ads feature the headline: "If You've Used a Telephone in the Last Five Years, Read This." The advertisement encourages readers to visit an ACLU website, where individuals can add their names to the public record in the ACLU's complaints with Public Utility Commissions and send e-mails to the FCC urging it to investigate the matter.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/ACLU_launches_20_state_campaign_to_0524.html

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