Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillance of Employees

As reported in today's Washington Post, six current and former employees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have filed a complaint against the FDA in U.S. District Court. The employees are seeking an injunction to stop the agency from illegally spying on employees' private communications to Congress and other oversight agencies.

Linked here are key documents related to this lawsuit and the FDA's spying program. 
 
The complaint details how the FDA targeted its employees with a covert spying campaign that lasted for two years. The FDA began the program after learning that the employees wrote a letter to President-Elect Obama and his transition team in early 2009 detailing government misconduct in approving unsafe medical devices.  The Agency installed (or activated) spyware on their workplace computers and used other technology that to monitor their password-protected Gmail-to-Gmail communications.

Read more: http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1334&Itemid=71

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