Mark Klein's speech on Tuesday night "woke up memories," as a crowd gathered to hear him speak, once again, about the secret data exchange between a leading communications company and the US government.
Klein, a retired AT&T, leaked several internal AT&T documents in 2006, which showed that the NSA was collecting data from AT&T through a surveillance room, 641A.
“I was installing the Big Brother machine, which pissed me off,” he said, standing outside the AT&T building that housed room 641A. About 200 people gathered in downtown San Francisco to hear Klein speak as part of “The Day We Fight Back,” a protest against mass government surveillance. During the protest, Internet activists made nearly 80,000 calls and sent nearly 160,000 e-mails to representatives in Congress to protest the NSA’s tactics.
