Taxpayer dollars pays off phone companies
by Suzanne
According to Democracy Now, headlines from July 11, 2007, privacy experts are alarmed over a new FBI program that would pay private companies to retain millions of phone and Internet records that the FBI is legally barred from keeping itself. Companies would be responsible for at least two years of network calling records. This would allow the FBI to avoid laws banning the collection of data not directly related to a criminal investigation or intelligence matter. Democracy Now reports that Verizon, MCI, and AT&T are the proposed companies.
Posted on July 13, 2007
