FISA court judge: No company has ever challenged Patriot Act sharing

Re:FISA court judge: No company has ever challenged Patriot ... by joe_the_user on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @10:54PM (#6131639)

A friend of might received rather extreme abuse while working in a classified position. The only potential means he had to deal with it was finding a competent labor lawyer who also had clearance. Naturally, the easier course of action was to write off the experience. Secrecy and unquestionable authority breed contemptuous disregard for your fellow humans.

Yeah, "Nobody ever challenged this", most likely because of the high barriers to challenge, etc.

Basically, not only is FISA broken but a society that tolerates a "classified" area of work and information is doomed to have that secret area metastasize and suck the life out of it.

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Re:FISA court judge: No company has ever challenged Patriot ... by yuhong on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:56AM (#6131996)

I wrote these on PRISM and Google:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6054532

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078124

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Re:FISA court judge: No company has ever challenged Patriot ... by josh2600 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:21AM (#6133121)

I think you're being downvoted for linking to your comments without explaining why they're relevant.

I would assume, though, given their scale, that someone at one of these companies has the necessary clearance to contest. I think FISA is being intentionally facetious, or rather technically. I find it impossible to believe no one has attempted, but find it plausible that the government has yet to give anyone standing to sue.

Finally, given the sovereign clause, I don't see why the government has to accept a lawsuit against them.

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