And why would any customer want to go with a company that eavesdrops on your calls without permission....
AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, submitted an affidavit in support of the EFF's lawsuit this week. That class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco last January, alleges that AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619
2007-04-23 10:06:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
If you only knew what really goes on at AT&T...
This is just the tip of the iceburg.
2007-04-24 00:54:21 · answer #1 · answered by Surfer_Girl_59 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Great. The government is listening in on my conversations with telemarketers I don't want to talk to. Why can't we make the telemarketers call that secret room directly and leave me out of it?
2007-04-23 10:14:00 · answer #2 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not illegal - but if the report is correct, certainly unethical.
2007-04-23 10:46:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋