read with great interest the biggest issue burning up the internets today, a USA Today article about the National Security Agency (NSA) collecting a database of phone records with the assistance of AT&T, Verizon and Bell South. “For the customers of these companies,” USA Today reports, “it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made — across town or across the country — to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others.”
Having been an AT&T Wisconsin customer since it was named SBC, I take this news seriously and immediately thought of two questions I’d like my phone company to answer. Were records of my calls made via AT&T included in data provided to the NSA? If so, did this violate the company’s privacy obligations as a service provider?
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