AT&T. Your World. Delivered…To The NSA
From Media Tank…
AT&T certainly put a new spin on their slogan “Your World. Delivered” with the recent news (USA Today) that the company willingly turned over the phone call records of millions of citizens to the National Security Agency who requested the information without a legal warrant. The NSA is now in possession of what one employee described as the ‘biggest database ever built’. Verizon and Bell South (soon to be purchased by AT&T pending federal approval) followed suit in providing the NSA what they wanted. Only Quest resisted, by simply saying ‘no’ and challenging the NSA to follow legal process and produce a warrant (the NSA just went away).
Remember that AT&T was in the news (Wired) in April when an employee leaked information that AT&T had allowed the NSA to build a private switching room that allowed them to monitor all the internet and phone traffic passing through AT&T Worldnet internet backbones.
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