more on Uh? Verizon Issues Statement on NSA and Privacy Protection

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "RJR RJRiley.com" <RJR () RJRILEY com>
Date: May 14, 2006 9:33:01 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] Uh? Verizon Issues Statement on NSA and Privacy  
Protection

For IP if you wish.

This is an incredible example of doublespeak at it's best.  After about
forty years as an abused customer I have to say that Verizon still  
very much
demonstrates it's roots in GTE.  Both are incompetent in so many ways  
it is
funny, well funny except when it comes to wholesale violation of law.

Telcos rank right near the top as patent pirates.  The whole industry
routinely conspires to appropriate inventor's property.  They are  
down right
brutal.  I have observed that companies who are ethically challenged  
in the
intellectual property arena often suffer ethical impairments in a  
multitude
of other areas and this flagrant abuse of people's constitutional  
rights by
telcos is consistent with their moral and ethical judgment in other  
aspects
of the way they do business.

"Patent pirates" are usually large multinational companies who pirate  
others
intellectual property and abuse the process of law to bankrupt the  
owners of
that property before they can get their day in court.  After many  
decades of
such abuses the inventor community has developed pretty effective
countermeasures and rather than change their ways patent pirates howl  
about
how those inventors whose property has been stolen morph into nasty  
"patent
trolls".  I guess we are all products of our environment.

Perhaps if we all work together we can box the nasty telcos in that nice
regulatory cocoon which they nurtured to protect obscene profits and see
them wither in the face of new innovation like VOIP.  They are  
dinosaurs who
should be mercifully laid to rest for the benefit of society at large.

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Subject: [IP] Uh? Verizon Issues Statement on NSA and Privacy Protection
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From: Alice Kehoe <akehoe () zen org>
Date: May 13, 2006 8:10:48 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: brendan () zen org, derry <derry () zen org>
Subject: Verizon Issues Statement on NSA and Privacy Protection

Dave - For IP, if you wish. As a Verizon customer, for the moment, I  
find
rather small comfort in this statement; to me, it smacks of Dubya's  
"trust
me" attitude. Simply not good enough, by several miles. --A :(

Verizon Issues Statement on NSA and Privacy Protection

May 12, 2006

Media contact:
Peter Thonis, 212-395-2355


NEW YORK -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) today issued the  
following
statement:

The President has referred to an NSA program, which he authorized,  
directed
against al-Qaeda. Because that program is highly classified, Verizon  
cannot
comment on that program, nor can we confirm or deny whether we have  
had any
relationship to it.

Having said that, there have been factual errors in press coverage  
about the
way Verizon handles customer information in general.
Verizon puts the interests of our customers first and has a longstanding
commitment to vigorously safeguard our customers'
privacy -- a commitment we've highlighted in our privacy principles,  
which
are available at www.verizon.com/privacy.

Verizon will provide customer information to a government agency only  
where
authorized by law for appropriately-defined and focused purposes. When
information is provided, Verizon seeks to ensure it is properly used for
that purpose and is subject to appropriate safeguards against  
improper use.
Verizon does not, and will not, provide any government agency unfettered
access to our customer records or provide information to the government
under circumstances that would allow a fishing expedition.

In January 2006, Verizon acquired MCI, and we are ensuring that  
Verizon's
policies are implemented at that entity and that all its activities  
fully
comply with law.

Verizon hopes that the Administration and the Congress can come  
together and
agree on a process in an appropriate setting, and with safeguards for
protecting classified information, to examine any issues that have been
raised about the program. Verizon is fully prepared to participate in  
such a
process.


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