Sunday, October 30, 2016
AT&T 10-30-2016
30,
October 2016 AT&T
New
details are emerging from investigations conducted by the Electronic Frontier
Foundation and the Daily Beast regarding AT&T decades long spying
activities on Americans.
The
activity, called, Project Hemisphere, captures Americans private calls, text
messages, and chats and sells the information to authorities investigating
everything from the war on drugs to Medicaid fraud.
The
information passes through AT &T giant telecommunication infrastructure.
Some of the records date back to 1987. Sheriffs and police departments each pay
upward of $1 million a year for access to the call records. No warrants are needed. This comes at a
critical time when AT & T is seeking government approval for its $85
billion takeover of Time Warner.
AT&T
activities are extremely troubling. The massive trove of customers’ call
records should be sacrosanct, protected from the peering eyes of ‘Big Brother’.
If such
information is deemed necessary in the pursuit of law enforcement, warrants
should be issued to ensure proper legal oversight. American has a long history of gross abuse of
law enforcement agencies harking back to the dreaded years of FBI Director,
Edgar Hoover.
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