AT&T Updates Privacy Policy Regarding Customer Data
NSA
Hays21 said:
Probably all the same things that Verizon is doing. Just hasn't been discovered likek Verizon's has. It is not right. We don't sign a contract that says all of our information may be given to big brother.
I don't think it would matter even if you did sign a contract that said they couldn't give our info to the gov.
While you are correct in saying that it's not right, I believe your anger is pointed at the wrong people in this reguard.
Blame the gov, not the providers.
The Washington Post has since admitted that their original story was incorrect, in fact the companies did not know that their data was being harvested, and the NSA never had direct access to anyone's servers, in fact, the NSA is collecting the information from what are known as 'drop boxes', which is far less intrusive than described in the original article.
In the words of the Washington Post's official retraction of the original story:
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One top-secret document obtained by The Post described it as “Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Pr...
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Additionally, all these companies have been avidly denying any involvement in any such government program for years, until the existence of the program actually came to light. If they were willing to lie about their involvement at the government's behest before this came to light, what reason do I have to believe they are not lying now? Many, many, many people in the history of man have adamantly lied over much less than what is at stake here. Furthermore, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have all been caught in some very unscrupulous privacy violations over the years. So, where's the incentive to believe they really have...
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