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AT&T accused of violating privacy law with sale of phone records to CIA

posted onDecember 12, 2013
by l33tdawg

Consumer advocates have asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to declare that AT&T violated a privacy rule in the Communications Act by selling phone records to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

A report last month said that "AT&T has turned over international calling records to the CIA. The telecom charges the CIA more than $10 million per year in exchange for access to metadata about calls by suspected terrorists overseas."

In response, a group of consumer advocacy groups led by Public Knowledge filed a petition today with the FCC. Appealing to the FCC is a new tactic against government collection of calling records. Previously, privacy advocates have tried to shut down the phone collection by filing lawsuits, including one in the Supreme Court.

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