Room 641A

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Photo with a view of the outer door of room 641A
Simple diagram of the installation
Detailed circuit diagram of the monitoring device

Room 641A (German: Raum 641A ) is the name of a facility for the secret monitoring of telecommunications data , which was set up in 2003 in an AT&T building and made public in 2006 by the technician Mark Klein employed there . This installation was and is the subject of two class actions brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) against AT&T “ Hepting v. AT&T ”and“ Jewel v. NSA "in which the company and the National Security Agency (NSA) are accused of privacy of the customer systematically violating existing law.

installation

The room 641A of 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco run fiber optic cables of the Internet backbones , and traffic from overseas. These were analyzed, for example, by devices from Narus , which became known around the world for this issue. On AT&T documents, the room was referred to as " SG3 [Study Group 3] Secure Room " (German: Study Group 3, safe room ).

Legal proceedings

Network monitoring component for fiber optic cables

" Hepting v. AT&T "was a class action lawsuit against AT&T brought to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Cir.), Filed by the EFF, based on Klein's disclosures. After a federal judge declined to close the case on July 20, 2006 after a hearing to avoid opening the case by AT&T and the United States government, the case was opened on August 15, 2007 before the 9th Cir. With reference to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 , AT&T was granted retroactive impunity because the company was working with the authorities . The United States Supreme Court declined to hear. In 2008, due to the same revelations, criminal proceedings “ Jewel v. NSA "against various members of the government of the George W. Bush cabinet and again sought the NSA, in which William Binney testified. Although representatives of Obama's government sought to have the case closed because of the possible exposure of state secrets , the responsible district judge rejected this in August 2013.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wired : AT&T Whistle-Blower's Evidence ( en ) Archived from the original on December 5, 2013. Retrieved on December 6, 2013.
  2. ^ The New York Times : Judge Declines to Dismiss Privacy Suit Against AT&T ( en ) Archived from the original on December 5, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ Judge: Lawsuit alleging illegal NSA spying may continue , cnet.com. Retrieved December 6, 2013.

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