Dec 09
1
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers
Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?
That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed a few months ago. But before the agencies could provide the data, Verizon and Yahoo intervened and filed an objection on grounds that, among other things, they would be ridiculed and publicly shamed were their surveillance price sheets made public.
Yahoo writes in its 12-page objection letter (.pdf), that if its pricing information were disclosed to Soghoian, he would use it “to ’shame’ Yahoo! and other companies — and to ’shock’ their customers.”
Story at Wired
Related posts:
- The New Libertarian Generation? Mark Lilla is a professor of humanities at Columbia University,...
- U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider...
- Federal Reserve Admits Hiding Gold Swap Arrangements, GATA Says The Federal Reserve System has disclosed to the Gold Anti-Trust...
- Broad New Hacking Attack Detected Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at...
- Confirmed: The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WW II Despite decades of denials, government records confirm that the U.S....
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.