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The United States government and one of the country's largest telecom carriers are once again embroiled in a mass surveillance controversy ... Hemisphere project, AT&T receives "indirect ...
The proposals at AT&T and Verizon, which are scheduled to be voted on at the companies’ annual meetings in spring 2014, note that controversy over U.S. government surveillance programs has spurred ...
Having been caught up in the surveillance controversy, they are braced for battle. NPR's Tom Gjelten dubs that battle the NSA versus the techs. TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: Here's the conflict.
It won’t be the first time that AT&T cooperated so directly with law enforcement. It was given retroactive immunity for its role in NSA surveillance programs under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said Wednesday that three major phone carriers failed to establish systems to notify offices about surveillance requests, as required by their Senate contracts. His ...
He added that while AT&T and Verizon only provide notice of surveillance of phone lines paid for by the Senate, T-Mobile informed his staff that it will provide notice for senators' campaign or ...
Wired News has waded into the middle of the controversial court case involving AT&T’s alleged participation in the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance operations. An anonymous source ...
spoke about ways in which AT&T gained information that would be used in connection with National Security Agency information requests for domestic surveillance. He also responded to telephone ...
with none of the controversy over spying and privacy yet settled. "I…thank the Congress for its extension of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act," read a White House statement ...