AT&T: We Now Own Customers Private Data

ONCE
again, an online news outlet has published details about secret rooms
in AT&T buildings where government spies are
said to be gaining access to millions of private e-mail messages and
other Internet traffic. This time, it’s Salon, which on Wednesday published
an article featuring two former AT&T employees who asserted that
the company had maintained a secured room in its network operations
center in Bridgeton, Mo., near St. Louis, since 2002 (salon.com).

AT&T instituted a new privacy policy this week
stating that the company, not customers, owns customers’ private data.

from the New York Times

And these are the people pushing legislation through
Congress giving them control of the Internet
of our future.