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unhappycamper

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Fri Sep 20, 2013, 08:20 AM Sep 2013

Major US Phone Companies' Silence on NSA Bulk Data Collection Speaks Volumes

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/19-2



Having 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 companies—including Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and others—is 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 OP
You hear crickets... Wilms Sep 2013 #1
I just assume that all big business is in bed with teh police state folks. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2013 #2
business doesn't give a fuck about it's customers gopiscrap Sep 2013 #3

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
2. I just assume that all big business is in bed with teh police state folks.
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 09:30 AM
Sep 2013

Makes life a lot easier to navigate.

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