wired.com — A civil liberties group suing telecom giant AT&T for allegedly installing illegal secret surveillance rooms in its internet facilities at the behest of the National Security Agency published substantial portions of long-sealed case documents Tuesday.
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mrswirlJun 13, 2007
Everyone should watch this PBS Frontline episode. <a class="user" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/</a>/opens eyes
dafilmsJun 14, 2007
AgreedFrom the show..."So many people in America think this does not affect them. They've been convinced that these programs are only targeted at suspected terrorists. … I think that's wrong. … Our programs are not perfect, and it is inevitable that totally innocent Americans are going to be affected by these programs," former CIA Assistant General Counsel Suzanne Spaulding tells FRONTLINE correspondent Hedrick Smith in 'Spying on the Home Front'
rejoinedJun 14, 2007
@erfman:That was good. You should write catchy ad lines on the side.Now if only there was a Mastercard style also in here.
kibibytebrainJun 14, 2007
@geekee 1) Violate privacy laws with spyware like technology 2) Say we are doing it to help the government 3) ??? 4) Profit!!!Simple as that. They have much more to gain that the tons of spyware companies out there. And we all know how prolific they are...
polygoneJun 14, 2007
Wow, someone seeing through the dichotomy! Beautiful. Now, if you could just get that point across, to the other 299 million of us.
whofartedJun 14, 2007
Let's not forget the AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein. We need more people like Mark Klien in our society.Cheers to Mark Klein!
normalvisualJun 14, 2007
geekee - What does AT&T have to gain by spying? Well, it might be handy for the government to owe you a favor if you had a ridiculously large merger with another Baby Bell that you wanted to complete without those pesky anti-trust trolls nipping at your heels, or you were wanting to avoid any equally pesky net neutrality legislation, or anything else that remotely smelled of regulation on the business that you built largely on the backs of taxpayers to begin with.When you're a monopoly in a lot of areas, and a near-monopoly everywhere else, what your customers think of you doesn't really factor into things.