We should all file a gigantic lawsuit against the federal government...

[Gravitycollapse]

Challenging the legal precedent behind data mining our information.

How can we get this ball rolling?

[OilemFirchen]

1. Send an email to Larry Klayman.

You'll find a buncha co-signers right here on the DU. Perhaps a quick note of support from Glenn Greenwald will lend some cred.

[SamKnause]

2. Lawsuit

Maybe we could ask Alan Grayson, Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren for advise.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Put your bucks up, money will spark interest for those in the legal profession.

[Gravitycollapse]

4. I have no money.

[Whisp]

5. norquist is good with bathtubs, call him.

kidding aside I would also include the corporations that invade everyones privacy practically every single day. Please include Facebook, and Google and all the rest that are eating pieces of us bite by bite. Include them.

Also include the non government contractors involved in the surveillance business - are they really working with the people's interest in mind, or like all corporations, for their own greed and plans.

[RudynJack]

6. Yes we should.

You start. Pony up for a lawyer who'll take a losing case as far as it will go, which is probably the lowest-level federal court.

[Gravitycollapse]

7. I think this is a winnable case.

[RudynJack]

11. It's not even close to a winnable case.

And even if you DID win, it wouldn't stop them.

Every government in history has used the powers and technology available to them to spy. That will never change.

[sabrina 1]

9. There will probably be class action suits so money won't be necessary. Verizon customers

can get together and do this which I'm sure they will.

[sabrina 1]

8. The Civil Liberties Union has already filed a lawsuit. I think Verizon customers probably will

also. I would definitely want to be a part of it. Not for the money, but for the discovery phase.

I am sure that some of the excellent Civil Liberties Organizations will do so. Eff eg, they were excellent during the Rapiscan controversy.

But anyone who has standing can file their own suit, so I'm sure there will be plenty of individual lawsuits also.

Money may not be necessary for any major suits, as Civil Liberties firms usually do this on a contingency basis.

[cynatnite]

10. And the lawyers will get the money...no thanks. n/t

[nyquil_man]

12. You'd have a better shot going after those who collect the information in the first place.

Without the telecoms and social networks collecting all this data, the government has nothing to mine.

Even then, though, I think it's an uphill battle.