It's just business

Remember the patriotic move by phone companies to hand over your phone records to the government, to keep us all safe from terrorist?

Seems that civil rights and privacy didn't give many pause. But apparently something eventually did.

AMERICAblog:

Did you get that? The same phone companies who simply HAD to give the feds all of our most private phone information, including calls you made and received, without the necessary court order, are now willing to stop that same surveillance because the feds didn't pay their bills on time. And it resulted in lost evidence...

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VALUES

• Security over Customer Privacy
• Accounts Not Received over Security