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Nation contributing editor Marc Cooper is involved in a lawsuit--the good kind. He's one of the journalistic plaintiffs (Robert Scheer is another) in a suit brought by the California ACLU against AT&T and Verizon. The suit charges that divulging private consumer records to NSA data-miners violates the California Constitution's privacy provisions and the state's privacy act, which prohibits telephone companies from providing information about customers' calling patterns except with their consent or in response to a court order. Twenty other ACLU chapters have raised similar complaints in their states.
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