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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Surveillance 'partnership' between NSA and telcos
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Wed Jan 22 11:59:52 2014
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:34:46 -0800
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Surveillance 'partnership' between NSA and telcos points to AT&T, Verizon
http://j.mp/1dPbpvw (CNET)
"Even in the top-secret document published by the Guardian today, the
firms are described only as "Company A" and "Company B." But the NSA's
inspector general did disclose that, at the time the program was being
formed in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the agency entered
into the partnerships because Company A had access to 39 percent of
international phone calls, and Company B had access to 28 percent.
Those figures closely correspond with Federal Communications
Commission data (PDF). The most recent figures publicly available in
late 2001, when the carrier "partnerships" were being expanded, reveal
that AT&T carried 38.2 percent of international minutes billed to U.S.
carriers. MCI, now part of Verizon, carried 29.1 percent."
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Surprise level zero.
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