Big Brother Is Watching (Brought To You By AT&T)- A Continuing Saga

Based on the ongoing class-action lawsuit the Electronic Frontier Foundation (with the help of former AT&T technician Mark Klein) brought against AT&T for their role in the domestic surveillance program, new details have emerged (yet again) on the extent of surveillance that has been occurring.

TruthDig summarizes some of the new findings-

This is the big one. Wired News unearths internal AT&T documents that show how the telecom company, at the behest of the government, built “secret rooms” in cities across America that enable the NSA “to look at every individual message on the Internet and analyze exactly what people are doing.”

*The story: Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut
*Their followup: Why We Published the AT&T Docs
*The documents: PDF file

Boy, I feel safer already, don't you?

Note to government: Less digging through Joe Sixpack's private communications, more finding Osama. Thanks.



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