I know this story was out months ago but I feel that it is very poignant on how the Major Telecoms are treating Net Neutrality.
Ryan Singel of Wired Magazine reported:
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.
On Wednesday, the EFF asked the court to iss…
So AT&T is allowing our government full access to their customers phone conversations without their consent. And they’re being charged for it too. So now they are in our government buildings asking a favor, a 100 million dollar favor, to pass a bill that would split the Internet into a two tiered network. I’m sure the developers of the Internet are throwing up in their mouths when they heard that news.
If they are still tapping our phones they better be listening to how pissed off we will be if their bill passes and crushes Net Neutrality.
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1 Final Cut Producer » Blog Archive » iPass On iPhone // Jun 29, 2007 at 3:13 am
[...] hands or shall I say bed with AT&T. Knocking boots with the company that sold their customers phone records and conversations to the NSA. Not to mention lobbying congress with millions of dollars to pass a bill to split up the Internet [...]
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