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May. 12th, 2006 08:45 am
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So I discovered Cingular has phone discussion forums and brought up the company passing Cingular phone owner's call info over to the NSA possibly violating our contracts. The discussion got kind of lively and lasted 24 hours before their company moderator ended it with:
"Very interesting but in my opinion inappropriate for our boards. Thank you all for participating and tossing this one around but I will close to diffuse hard feelings, any political discussions should be directed to Capital Hill not here, thanks."
My beef is more with Cingular than the White House. Since there was no sopeona and phone carriers weren't forced to comply, they made the choice to willingly give up all their phone records. And the fact that Qwest didn't give up phone records because of privacy and they thought it would violate the law shows Cingular definitely has a choice in this matter. Really I'm just hoping they and the other providers get some balls and stand up to the NSA. The sad part is today's news shows a lot of polls where Americans don't seem to care if their phones are monitored... their fear of terrorism over rides their fear of government encroachment on their rights, justice and the Constitution. I wish Opera would pick Orwell's "1984" for her book club to read next.
"Very interesting but in my opinion inappropriate for our boards. Thank you all for participating and tossing this one around but I will close to diffuse hard feelings, any political discussions should be directed to Capital Hill not here, thanks."
My beef is more with Cingular than the White House. Since there was no sopeona and phone carriers weren't forced to comply, they made the choice to willingly give up all their phone records. And the fact that Qwest didn't give up phone records because of privacy and they thought it would violate the law shows Cingular definitely has a choice in this matter. Really I'm just hoping they and the other providers get some balls and stand up to the NSA. The sad part is today's news shows a lot of polls where Americans don't seem to care if their phones are monitored... their fear of terrorism over rides their fear of government encroachment on their rights, justice and the Constitution. I wish Opera would pick Orwell's "1984" for her book club to read next.