You don’t have anything to hide. Amirite?
Verizon Communications, the nation’s second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers’ telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005.
The company said it does not determine the requests’ legality or necessity because to do so would slow efforts to save lives in criminal investigations.
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In an Oct. 12 letter replying to Democratic lawmakers, Verizon offered a rare glimpse into the way telecommunications companies cooperate with government requests for information on U.S. citizens.
Verizon also disclosed that the FBI, using administrative subpoenas, sought information identifying not just a person making a call, but all the people that customer called, as well as the people those people called. Verizon does not keep data on this “two-generation community of interest” for customers, but the request highlights the broad reach of the government’s quest for data.
Your privacy, flushed down the tubes. Brought to you by the bed-wetting morons who now dominate the Democratic and Republican party. Sorry Jefferson, Washington, et. al. We gave it a good try.
paradox
Freedom–often not the ability to choose something, but simply the condition of being the fuck left alone.
Our government is a disgrace. How anyone thinks America is the hot shit since what’s happened at the start of the century is beyond me. We are not that good, and a lot of countries, by a lot of very real measurements, kick our ass.
sparky
Dunno why they are pushing for immunity. Apparently nobody cares anyway.
Q: why is the second amendment made of steel and the fourth amendment made of paper?
A: Islamofascists’ hands fall off if they touch a gun in the US.
scarshapedstar
Fixed. Funny how history repeats, eh?
Jake
“Bu-but, we’re the good guys!”
This should be fairly easy to determine by speaking to any police force that has ever asked Verizon for records. Does Verizon just hand them over when it sees a badge or does it make any sort of determination about the urgency of the investigation (likely/unlikely to save lives)? It would be fairly easy to determine the nature of their system is with a few well placed phone calls.
Oh well, can anyone in the DC/metro area recommend a decent ISP? Time to dump these bastards.
p.s. John, what’s with the 3rd paragraph in your blockquote?
rawshark
But what about the children? What if some islamomexigay pedophile is sending innapropriate text messsages to your kids. You’d want the gov’t to do somethign wouldn’t you. Don’t you remember Reagan’s famous line; ‘Everybody’s favorite nine words are; I’m from the government and I’m here to help’.
whippoorwill
What a country. Wingnuts afraid of their own shadow and dems afraid of wingnuts who accuse dems of being pro-shadow appeasers. And dems dumb enough to accept wingnuts arguments.
Keith
Maybe, just maybe, for the first time ever, the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon game will actually get used in court. Seriously, I’m pretty sure I have at the very least talked to someone who has talked to someone who has talked on the phone to Kevin Bacon. Not much of a stretch to think that Kevin Bacon’s phone records are in possession of the FBI
just sayin
America 2.0 – Get used to it.