Telecommunications companies, at the behest of the Bush Administration, illegally monitored American citizens’ private e-mail correspondence, phone calls, password protected web activity, and other communications. This violated Americans’ Fourth Amendment right against unwarranted searches and seizures, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the contractual rights of private customers who signed privacy agreements with these companies. Granting retroactive immunity to companies that illegally spied on citizens set a dangerous precedent for corporations to trample the rights of middle-class Americans without having to face any consequences for breaking the law. What’s more, retroactive immunity weakened the ability of middle-class consumers to trust that their contracts with corporations will be honored and that the legal system will treat their constitutional rights as more than symbolic. The Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act would repeal the law that grants immunity from civil lawsuits to telecommunications companies that participated in the Bush administration’s secret surveillance program. Lawsuits for alleged violations of privacy against companies suspected of participating in the surveillance program that were nullified by the law would be able to proceed.