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| Thread ID: 67860 | 2006-04-08 02:17:00 | Cat's Outta The Bag | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 444927 | 2006-04-08 02:17:00 | On an average day AT&T (US ISP and telecommunications provider) carries some 300 million voice calls as well as over 4,000 terabytes of data -- approximately 200 times the amount of data contained in all the books in the Library of Congress . It is, hands down, the largest telecommunications provider in the United States and one of the largest in the world . So to hear that the company has for years diverted a large portion of the communications entrusted to it to the National Security Agency for it to datamine to its heart's content is discomfiting to say the least . According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T cooperated with the NSA in 2003 to install surveillance equipment in its San Francisco hub, and the organization apparently has the documents to back that accusation up . A sworn statement from a retired AT&T telecommunications technician and several internal AT&T documents show that the company gave the government unfettered access to its more than 300 terabyte "Daytona" database of caller information -- one of the largest databases in the world . "The evidence that we are filing supports our claim that AT&T is diverting Internet traffic into the hands of the NSA wholesale, in violation of federal wiretapping laws and the Fourth Amendment," said EFF staff attorney Kevin Bankston . "More than just threatening individuals' privacy, AT&T's apparent choice to give the government secret, direct access to millions of ordinary Americans' Internet communications is a threat to the Constitution itself . We are asking the Court to put a stop to it now . " |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 444928 | 2006-04-08 04:37:00 | AT&T .......... has for years diverted a large portion of the communications entrusted to it to the National Security Agency for it to datamine to its heart's content And what was the results of the NSA getting all this stuff? |
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| 444929 | 2006-04-08 04:44:00 | And what was the results of the NSA getting all this stuff?I'm guessing boredom. | ninja (1671) | ||
| 444930 | 2006-04-08 05:11:00 | There's a current furor over the harvesting of just "files" and "downloads" from sites by citizens. They view it as drawing to an end, the means of spying upon the general populace.....not they way the constitution says it should be done..with the "illegal search and seizure" part of the Bill of Rights. That's all! | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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