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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)." - - - 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 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad