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[ NNSquad ] TIME: NSA Scandal: As Tech Giants Fight Back, Phone Firms Stay Mum
TIME: NSA Scandal: As Tech Giants Fight Back, Phone Firms Stay Mum
http://j.mp/14NRJjo (TIME)
"As the U.S. National Security Agency scandal has unfolded over the
last few weeks, Internet giants Google, Facebook, and Yahoo have been
falling over each other to publicly distance themselves from the NSA's
data collection programs, in some cases even going to a secret U.S.
court to increase their transparency with the public. By contrast, the
nation's largest phone companies, including Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint,
have remained stone-cold silent in the face of reports that they've
participated in a vast, ongoing NSA data collection program targeting
the phone records of tens of millions of Americans. It's a striking
dichotomy, because the program involving the Internet companies, a
data analysis system known as Prism, doesn't even target U.S. citizens
or others on U.S. soil (although it's clear that some data associated
with so-called U.S. persons has been scrutinized, thanks to linguistic
wiggle-room in the parameters of the Prism program)."
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There's an old saying from Bell System days: "We're the phone company!
We don't care. We don't have to!"
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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