NSA and our phone records

I just read over my Cingular Wireless policy (owned by AT&T so I'm sure my records were shared):

"Under federal law, you have a right, and we have a duty, to protect the confidentiality of information about your telephone usage, the services you buy from us, who you call, and the location of your device on our network when you make a voice call. This information is sometimes referred to as "Customer Proprietary Network Information," or "CPNI." We share CPNI and other personal information about you with affiliates of AT&T and BellSouth Corporation (the parent companies of Cingular) that provide telecommunications services to which you also subscribe. Before sharing CPNI in any other way, we will first notify you of your rights under the law, describe how we intend to use the CPNI, and give you an opportunity to opt out of such usage (or, when required by law, to opt in)."

It seems quite obvious that they disclosed confidential information about who I call and my telephone usage without notifying me or telling me. This is a violation of my contract and not certainly not fufilling their "duty to protect the confidentiality of information." I'm actually amazed it was Qwest that stood up to Big Brother on this one when the other large companies caved on our rights so easily.

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Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona also faulted the revelation of the program as harmful to national security. "This is nuts," Kyl said. "We are in a war and we've go to collect intelligence on the enemy and you can't tell the enemy in advance how you are going to do it."

Apparently Republican Senator Jon Kyl now thinks the American tax-paying public is the enemy.