Judge Rejects Challenge to Internet Surveillance

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California has ruled that a group of AT&T customers haven't been able to show they have standing to show that their Fourth Amendment rights were violated by alleged surveillance of all of their Internet communications, The Recorder's Ross Todd reports. Even though a retired AT&T technician Mark Klein reports that the the company's Internet traffic is routed to a secret room controlled by the government, the judge "found that Klein could not establish 'the content, function, or purpose of the secure room at the AT&T site based on his own independent knowledge' and that lawyers challenging the program under the Fourth Amendment hadn't offered enough admissible evidence to support standing."