Friday, June 7, 2013

NSA Also Collecting Data from AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Credit-Card Companies.

No surprise to me, but WSJ reports:

The arrangement with Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, the country's three largest phone companies means, that every time the majority of Americans makes a call, NSA gets a record of the location, the number called, the time of the call and the length of the conversation, according to people familiar with the matter. The practice, which evolved out of warrantless wiretapping programs begun after 2001, is now approved by all three branches of the U.S. government.[...]
AT&T has 107.3 million wireless customers and 31.2 million landline customers. Verizon has 98.9 million wireless customers and 22.2 million landline customers while Sprint has 55 million customers in total.
NSA also obtains access to data from Internet service providers on Internet use such as data about email or website visits, several former officials said. NSA has established similar relationships with credit-card companies, three former officials said.

2 comments:

  1. "And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in [on] their foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." [Google Glass statement of corporate objectives]

    Hummmm, the name Google is a number. Just sayin'...

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  2. All to stop the terrorists, you know, who hate us for out freedom.

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