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Major US Phone Companies' Silence on NSA Bulk Data Collection Speaks Volumes
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/19-2Having acted in concert with the government to execute secret surveillance programs, telecoms seem unwilling to divulge their legal stance despite privacy concerns
Major US Phone Companies' Silence on NSA Bulk Data Collection Speaks Volumes
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Published on Thursday, September 19, 2013 by Common Dreams
If U.S. telecom companies have the capacity to challenge government requests for their customer data, why haven't they done so?
More than two days after a declassified opinion from the secretive court that overseas the National Security Agency's surveillance programs said that the absence of challenges by these companiesincluding Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and othersis among the reasons it continues to approve authorization for the bulk collection of this kind of data, none of these corporate entities have commented publicly about how they perceive the legality of such programs.
To date, no holder of records who has received an Order to produce bulk telephony metadata has challenged the legality of such an Order, wrote FISA court Judge Clair V. Eagan in her "declassified" ruling, written on August 29 of this year and released to the public in redacted form on Tuesday.
However, trying to obtain clarification on exactly how these giant firms interpret the requests from the NSA, the Guardian's Ed Pilkington hit a dead end.
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Major US Phone Companies' Silence on NSA Bulk Data Collection Speaks Volumes (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Sep 2013
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Wilms
(26,795 posts)1. You hear crickets...
...and a pin drop.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. I just assume that all big business is in bed with teh police state folks.
Makes life a lot easier to navigate.
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)3. business doesn't give a fuck about it's customers
just making a buck