AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal....

The telecom giant is doing NSA-style work for law enforcement--without a warrant!!!! And this is why cell phones are a very bad decision....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/25/at-t-is-spying-on-americans-for-profit.html


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[16 Points] FrozenSignal:

They've been doing it for awile now. They got caught using a spliter in the Att San Fransisco office. Every single Att subscriber had their calls going straight from office in the office at Att right into the spliter right into NSA. I think even more scary is the proof theve been doing it for years and years. The proof is right in front of everyones faces and still not very many people know about it or if they do, they refuse to acknowledge its happening. I will never own an ATT phone for this very reason.


[6 Points] None:

Sadly all corporations do this daily. Big data was the buzz word back then.

Fuck look at Google. That is mass surveillance as well. You think those fuckers are not doing the same?


[5 Points] None:

How the fuck is this legal


[7 Points] Fetus_In_Anus:

This Is An Official Meth_9000 Shit Post....The FACE That Spams The Damn Place!!!


[5 Points] weedandsyrup:

I have a friend who was a district manager at AT&T he said they have what they call "Listening Rooms" at their big facilities that pick up on key words in conversations. Not sure if he was full of shit or what.


[3 Points] ScoopDat:

/r/privacy ?


[3 Points] None:

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[2 Points] treehugginatheist:

Verizon is suspected of doing it too. I'm sure they all do. ISPs also. When at least half of the U.S. is willing to rally and make change happen, I'll worry about pursuing it. Until the moment that people care and aren't too scared to stand in the face of adversary, there's nothing we can do except don't be a big time drug dealer and don't kill anyone.


[2 Points] maxturbator:

This is 2016. If you're going to talk about anything that you don't want tied to you, do it anonymously and/or encrypted.


[2 Points] Sw1tchOP:

I think we're looking at a world like the show Continuum. Basically the government is run by a collection of corporations. I'd actually argue this has already happened. I think there's a more profitable reason behind the NSA collecting big data than Big brother spying on us. It'd also be interesting whether or not the government itself runs some of these big corporations because most were broken up numerous times and brought back together through countless anti-trust decisions by the Supreme Court.