While searching for something else I came upon these old threads.....  These were long before the Snowden revelations and the spying had been going on long before these threads were started ......  Note the denials that it was happening.... smiley: eyes

UK internet surveillance program in works

http://missionquest.fpb.yuku.com/reply/35383/UK-internet-surveillance-program-in-works#reply-35383 

THE "I HATE VERIZON" THREAD

Excerpt:

On May 11, 2006, controversy arose when USA Today revealed that Verizon, along with AT&T Inc. and BellSouth, had turned over the call records of millions of U.S. citizens to the Natíonal Security Agency. Verizon flatly denied turning over records to the government, but did not comment on whether MCI, which it had acquired in January, had done so. On October 12, 2007, the company admitted in a letter to the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce that it had turned over customer information to the FBI and other federal agencies of the U.S. government approximately 94,000 times from January 2005 to September 2007, providing such information 720 times without being presented with a court order or warrant.

Read more @ http://missionquest.fpb.yuku.com/reply/36217/THE-quotI-HATE-VERIZONquot-THREAD#reply-36217



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