Federal Judge Authorizes Chevron’s Sweeping Subpoena Of Activists’ Internet Data
Source: ThinkProgress
It’s not just the NSA that’s collecting massive amounts of personal data with judicial approval. In a ruling publicized by EarthRights International, a federal judge in New York approved a subpoena by Chevron to obtain any documents Microsoft has related to the identity of 30 anonymous individuals allegedly of interest in the litigation, including every IP address over a period of nine years.
The case involves an $18.2 billion judgment against Chevron in an Ecuador court, for massive environmental contamination from oil drilling. The Ecuadorian court found that Chevron had dumped toxic waste into Amazon waterways used by indigenous groups for drinking water and caused massive harm to the rainforest. Chevron responded by filing a lawsuit in U.S. court alleging that the plaintiffs engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the company.
As part of this lawsuit, Chevron has subpoenaed Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to request all information related to the email addresses of more than 100 advocates, journalists, lawyers, and others. These individuals are not parties to the suit, but Chevron alleges that they are involved directly or indirectly in the litigation, and may have been outspoken critics of Chevron’s conduct. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan explains the scope of what Chevron was seeking from Microsoft:
To summarize, if Microsoft still has and were to produce the requested information, Chevron would learn the IP address associated with every login for every account over a nine-year period. Chevron could identify the countries, states, or even cities where the users logged into accounts, and perhaps, in some instances, could determine the actual building addresses.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/10/2275611/federal-judge-authorizes-chevrons-sweeping-subpoena-of-activists-internet-data/
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TRoN33
(769 posts)that I would live to the day that Chevron empire would experience the historic colossal collapse since Roman empire! I'd give myself 60 years to go in my life.
BehindTheCurtain76
(112 posts)I'll bet you there is a good chance that this corporately owned corrupted judge is blackmailed based on NSA surveillance...exNSA whistleblower Russ Tice said the majority of the surveillance he was asked to conduct for NSA was on US Federal judges in order to gain leverage on them for the wealth 1% elite. Egypt could easily be the USA...you think our armed forces wouldn't kill 50 people if millions stormed the bastille?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)One wonders if they would limit their actions to the court.
My personal sense that Privacy is obsolete continues.
That Ecuador Court should have demanded the company be broken up, it officers be imprisoned, and it's investors be taken to court for damages.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)and i doubt they'll be finding any monsters while they trample the 4th amendment
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)unless the individuals in the U.S. have been declared a protected class. The government is supposed to be constrained by them.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts) Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)My concern is what they do with this information.
Read msanthrope's reply #6. It is enlightening.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)and no one representing those accounts was able to claim privilege. Heck--no one representing those accounts showed up.
Basicially, Chevron subpoenaed sock puppets.
byeya
(2,842 posts)of deaths at Bhopal. The USA shielded the perp.
Again, the officers and investors should be at the bar of justice for what they have done in Ecuador - It's horrible.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Ban these corporations from operating in the countries they crap on.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)dkf
(37,305 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)each other. It's like snakes in a bag--the only government stupid enough to get involved in this was Ecuador.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)poised to not just win--but make new law on the basis of the litigation pending as a direct result of legal bad faith on the part of Ecuador and the LAPs.
Bribing a judge and threatening him to win your case will bite you on the ass every single time.
I suggest you read the first 26 pages of this particular memo resulting from the current RICO case--it's a pretty good summary of the fraud committed by the Plaintiffs and Ecuador.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/132521545/Chevron-Ecuador-Judge-Lewis-Kaplan-s-Decision-On-Patton-Boggs-Subpoena-In-Donziger-Case-Zennie-Abraham
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)I am sure the emails will be more against Chevron than for them?
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)byeya
(2,842 posts)lives and livelihood of many people and the habitats for untold numbers of animals and plants.
There is no dungeon bleak enough for those who did this.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)The judge's memo is pretty enlightening..
glinda
(14,807 posts)for even bloggers in the future. Yikes. We are in strange times for sure.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)the opposition into the ground.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)And he is us.
