AT&T Could Owe You $146,000
FISA violation means $36,500 per claimant, per four years of wiretapping
The Legality Blog has an interesting read on just how much telecom providers like AT&T could owe their customers should the lawsuit against them for illegal wiretapping be allowed to proceed. While there are more than forty potential suits currently open against Sprint, Verizon and AT&T, the EFF's case against AT&T is the most highly visible, given it involved a 22-year former employee turned whistleblower. If the EFF case proceeds and it shows widespread violation of FISA laws, AT&T would be in some serious financial trouble:Code provision 50 U.S.C. § 1810 imposes civil liability on any person (or entity) for each violation of FISA. Victims of illegal surveillance are entitled to recover $100 for each day they were wiretapped, or actual damages over $1000, whichever is greater. Additionally, FISA provides compensation for attorney’s fees and other costs of litigation. . . As you may imagine, one hundred dollars per day, per person adds up over four years. If the Hepting lawsuit is successful, AT&T could face damages of over $36,500 per claimant per year. Nearly every person with a computer or phone in the United States could be impacted.
AT&T serves 14.2 million broadband customers and roughly 70 million landline users. If they were forced to pay $146,000 to each landline customer, AT&T could be facing a total legal liability cost of $10,220,000,000,000.
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My older cat, Sandi, had a rough day yesterday.I accidentally shut her in a closet before I left for work. Usually they both are in the front room when I leave, but I was in a hurry and I didn't have time to investigate when I noticed they weren't there.
Poor Sandi! She was trapped there from 7:30AM until after 5:30PM. :(
I feel like such a bad mom.
And in the process, since of course she had to relieve her bladder, one silk dress and one silk kimono got "marked." I've found only one place locally that's willing to try to save them.
And just to put the icing on the cake, I was having some friends over for dinner and apartment decorating. Sandi was still so shook that she wouldn't even come to bed with me last night - the same room where the closet is.
I made damn sure I knew where both of them were before leaving today!
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My older cat, Sandi, had a rough day yesterday.I accidentally shut her in a closet before I left for work. Usually they both are in the front room when I leave, but I was in a hurry and I didn't have time to investigate when I noticed they weren't there.
Poor Sandi! She was trapped there from 7:30AM until after 5:30PM. :(
I feel like such a bad mom.
And in the process, since of course she had to relieve her bladder, one silk dress and one silk kimono got "marked." I've found only one place locally that's willing to try to save them.
And just to put the icing on the cake, I was having some friends over for dinner and apartment decorating. Sandi was still so shook that she wouldn't even come to bed with me last night - the same room where the closet is.
I made damn sure I knew where both of them were before leaving today!
Funny that you mention this. Yesterday I noticed that Camille was outside for MUCH longer than usual. I try not to sweat it since she used to be outside for 12 hours or more at a time, back when I was in NY. But Bob and I decided to take a quick peek for her. She was in the neighbors yard, and she would come when called, altho I could hear her shuffling around (she doesn't really meow)
Turns out this silly feline somehow got her front paw stuck in her collar....I don't know how long she was there, and yeah I felt bad.
She was so glad to be carried back home. She ate some Ice cream and went right to sleep.
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A former girlfriend and I had a cat when we lived together; Parker Posey. Said former girlfriend used to keep some of her shirts in the spare bedroom armoire, and she often got dressed while it was still dark in the morning. Parker Posey, one morning, somehow slipped into the shirt drawer when former girlfriend wasn't looking.
I got home from work and after about 10 minutes, I said "Where's Parker?" Former girlfriend had not noticed that she hadn't seen her since she got home from work.
We looked everywhere and then we heard this faint "meow meow." She had been stuck IN A DRAWER all day!!!
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We had a Maine Coon cat that used to hang out in the back yard only. She was a big time hunter and would stalk a gopher or mole for hours. She also went after baby black birds because their parents were always bothering her. That was the icky part. Any hoo, one day she did leave the back yard and we searched for her for three days. It was the saddest three days. Late on the third day, she came home covered in pine tree sap and skinny as a rail. Evidently she had run up a tree and couldn't get down. She was quite the talker and we heard about it for days, especially when we were trying to de-sap her. Sweet kitty except when she was in a mood.![]()