Inmate calls to lawyers recorded, stored and hacked. (1 Viewer)

[Fantasic]

Anonymous hacker/ers cracked the networks of Securus Technologies who provides prisons and jails with phone services. Stolen was documentation and recordings of 70 million calls in 37 states. But the hacker in question leaked the data to journalists at the theintercept.com who after examination found over 14 000 calls between prisoners and their lawyers had been recorded. Which is contrary to what their own policy and the law.

Full story: Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Indicates Violations of Attorney-Client Privilege

“This may be the most massive breach of the attorney-client privilege in modern U.S. history, and that’s certainly something to be concerned about,” said David Fathi, director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project. “A lot of prisoner rights are limited because of their conviction and incarceration, but their protection by the attorney-client privilege is not.”

Securus Technologies are now being sued.

The lawsuit was brought by the Austin Lawyers Guild, four named attorneys, and a prisoner advocacy group, and alleges that, despite official assurances to the contrary, privileged communications between lawyers and clients housed in the county jails have been taped, stored, “procured,” and listened to by prosecutors.

 

[McM]

Next we'll hear, responsible was the government.

 

[Equal Hater]

Out of those 14000 if any was convicted they would have to at least give them a new trial, if not dismiss their cases altogether.