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[privacy] FCC Will Not Probe Telco Disclosure of Phone Records
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:55:17 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Reuters. [snip] The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission declined to investigate reports that phone companies turned over customer records to the National Security Agency, citing national security concerns, according to documents released on Friday. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin turned down a congressional request for an investigation as a top intelligence official concluded it would "pose an unnecessary risk of damage to the national security," according to a letter National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell sent to Martin on Tuesday. Intelligence officials "support your determination not to initiate an investigation," McConnell wrote to Martin. At issue are reports last year that some big telephone companies allowed the U.S. government access to millions of telephone records for an anti-terrorism program. [snip] More: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0535834320071005 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHBrLBq1pz9mNUZTMRAgr/AKCJg3Wv7ERt5n4ZKRthsk7gAcLJNgCg6Yvp m3SmxoN58L2kodHbT91btkw= =Scdg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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