http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/12/24/us-spying051224.html

Companies helped U.S spy agency: report

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/12/24/us-spying051224.html

Companies helped U.S spy agency: report

Sat, 24 Dec

Huge volumes of e-mails and phone calls in the United States have been
scanned without court orders with help from telecommunications
companies, according to a published report.

A former technology manager at a major telecommunications firm told
the New York Times that since the Sept. 11 attacks, the leading
companies in the industry have been storing information on calling
patterns and giving it to the U.S. government.

Technicians with the National Security Agency have combed through
large volumes of phone and internet traffic in search of patterns that
might point to terrorism suspects.

Some officials have described the program as a large data-mining
operation, the paper said.

The Times did not name any of the companies who have been dealing with
the classified program.

The paper said the scope of the domestic spying is much broader than
what's already been acknowledged by the White House.

President George W. Bush has claimed that his executive order allowing
the eavesdropping was limited to people with known links to al-Qaeda.

Both Democratic and Republican critics have said NSA eavesdropping
violates privacy rights.

_________________________________________________________

"The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a
greater danger to the privacy of the individual."

Earl Warren

Harry

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/12/24/us-spying051224.html

Companies helped U.S spy agency: report

Sat, 24 Dec


Huge volumes of e-mails and phone calls in the United States have been
scanned without court orders with help from telecommunications
companies, according to a published report.

A former technology manager at a major telecommunications firm told
the New York Times that since the Sept. 11 attacks, the leading
companies in the industry have been storing information on calling
patterns and giving it to the U.S. government.

Technicians with the National Security Agency have combed through
large volumes of phone and internet traffic in search of patterns that
might point to terrorism suspects.

Some officials have described the program as a large data-mining
operation, the paper said.

The Times did not name any of the companies who have been dealing with
the classified program.

The paper said the scope of the domestic spying is much broader than
what's already been acknowledged by the White House.

President George W. Bush has claimed that his executive order allowing
the eavesdropping was limited to people with known links to al-Qaeda.

Both Democratic and Republican critics have said NSA eavesdropping
violates privacy rights.

_________________________________________________________

"The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a
greater danger to the privacy of the individual."

Earl Warren

Harry