Federal Judge Delays Thursday Hearing on Making DEA Phone Database Public, EFF Says
A U.S. District Judge in San Francisco is delaying a Thursday hearing in which the Electronic Frontier Foundation was going to urge the federal court to make public a large, decades-old drug enforcement database that contains Americans' telephone metadata (see…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
1605170006). EFF said in a Wednesday update that the judge issued an order Tuesday asking for "supplemental briefing from the parties" and another hearing date may be set once that briefing is complete. EFF had planned to argue that the government "stop misusing public records law to hide information" about the Hemisphere Project, which was created by the Drug Enforcement Administration, local drug enforcement officials and AT&T.