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U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Companies Should Be Allowed To Break Law if Helping Government

Ryan Singel writes on Threat Level:

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is arguing to a federal appeals court that laws shouldn't apply to companies that help the government in the name of homeland security and that the court should dismiss a suit against AT&T for allegedly violating federal privacy laws in helping the government spy on Americans without warrants.

The group contends that companies can't defend themselves from such suits since doing so would require disclosing classified information -- which is banned by federal law -- and that allowing such suits would dissuade companies from helping the government.

posted by Fergie @ 4/25/2007 05:46:00 PM