The United States government has filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF had sued AT&T for handing over telephone and internet records of customers to the National Security Agency. The government said that its legal briefs and affidavits are classified, preventing even the parties to the lawsuit, EFF and AT&T, from seeing them.
A redacted version of the brief that was made public said that the case against AT&T should be immediately terminated as a judicial enquiry may reveal state secrets and harm national security.
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