Nov 13th 2013, 16:03, by Russell Brandom
Last week, the New York Times unearthed a troubling twist to the endless stream of bad surveillance news. Not only is AT&T handing over bulk call records to the CIA, but they’re getting paid for it, to the tune of $10 million each year. In a statement in response, AT&T said only, "we ensure that we maintain customer information in compliance with the laws of the United States," emphasizing the law and giving little reassurance to customers that the company was looking out for them.
Why couldn't a small carrier push back?
Ten million dollars is chicken feed to AT&T, of course; its profits are currently running a little over a billion dollars a month, with revenue triple that. It's more the principle of the thing. If the company...
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