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- chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42So they will freely give out or info to any government agency without warrant or legal leg to stand on - but they will sue the pants off of anyone who tricks them into giving our info away?
I think they're less angry at our lost data and instead more angry about being tricked. - aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22This should be funny but its not.
I think I broke my irony gland. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10From Article: "Once it identifies the data brokers, the company plans to seek an injunction as well as a return of profits earned from selling customer information. "
And where exactly will these earned profits go? Back to the exposed customers? - pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7what the defendants should have done is as for all of their customers' information, not just a few. att doesn't like violating the rights of just a few people at a time.
- PhillyMJS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning!
- ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I must say, "Well done!" on your second-choice comment.
- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12On behalf of all the users of digg, I say to AT&T: "O RLY???"
- SilverRocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Information is the hottest commodity.
- MrCobaltBlue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4AT&T to phpirate: "YA RLY!"
- keitho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this has to be a joke.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3if your with At&t then you support their practices, just remember that you have other options, other telcos called CLECS that can provide phone service in the at&t area, that wont give out your data to the NSA
- theorb77, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Actually, the AT&T cases are just the most high profile cases (EFF vs AT&T and ACLU vs AT&T). If you want to have an eye-opening good time, go to google, choose your favorite carrier (say, Verizon) and tack on the words NSA and Lawsuit. You'll find that Bellsouth, SBC and Verizon have all been sued for the same thing. Qwest, notably, didn't hand over records, at least according to recent news. Of course, if your call carries over from Qwest to another carrier, well, you're still hosed.
As it stands, most people believe the extent of the NSA's program has been to collect data as to who the individual carriers' custoners have been calling. There are, of course, the statements of Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, showing that the NSA additionally monitors IP traffic and that of J. Scott Marcus that the equipment deployed by the NSA at these carriers is "fully capable of pattern analysis, pattern matching and detailed analysis at the level of content", ie: analyzing what is said in the calls.
I strongly suggest that you review Mr. Marcus' statements hosted at EFF's site; you may be mad about what AT&T and the NSA are doing now, but you should be much, much madder.
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/marcus-decl-redact.pdf - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4oh Irony be a cruel Mistress indeed...
- crimson117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nope, that wasn't unauthorized access. Illegal, but not unauthorized.
- insomniac8400, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3WOW, AT&T let brokers get private information and now they are suing because they want a cut of the profits. If they want to pretent they care about privacy, why not prevent people from getting data to begin with?
- pollardito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2maybe the 25 unnamed John Doe defendents are GWB and pals
- Xalorous, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That's funny, because eventually, you're on their wires. Usually as soon as the signal leaves your house.
- chase001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it was Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales pretending to be customers.
- danlemire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is a difference between sharing information with your government because you lawyers are afraid of losing a legal battle, and just giving away information to anyone who wants it. If you want to talk about hypocrisy, go talk to AO[HEL]L
- NoSalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pardon my French, but ... this takes BALLS!!!
- AsadM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How come everyone else didn't think to do this? By that I mean the "suing" part. Does US law cover the corporations there too?
- tommasz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0With AT&T the jokes just write themselves.
- ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Xalorous and digitallysick, that would be Veiryzyon (wtf with the new name anyhow?), nee GTE. They own all the last-mile copper.
- Wedge1212, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5god looks like enough people beat me to the irony comment. AT&T is run by a bunch of *****
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's touching to see AT&T stand up for their customers like this.
- somecheesypoofs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0ppffft.
/AT&T blows. - jimbonics, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0So AT&T is suing the NSA?
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