Your Privacy Is Not Our Responsibility, Says Verizon Exec

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http://www.tomsguide.com/us/marcus-sachs-verizon-interview,news-17618.html

By Jill Scharr
Tom's Guide
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

"If you're worried about it, do something about it. Take security on 
yourselves, and don't trust anybody else to do it."

At a recent security conference in New York City, that was the advice 
Marcus Sachs, Verizon's vice president of national security policy, had 
for people upset about Verizon's connections to the U.S. National Security 
Agency (NSA).

Verizon is one of the large U.S. telecommunications providers closely 
linked to the National Security Agency's widespread surveillance and data 
collection programs, according to documents leaked by former NSA 
contractor Edward Snowden.

News that Verizon supplies the NSA with customer phone records on an 
"ongoing, daily basis" broke in June 6, 2013. It was the first story to 
examine the top-secret NSA documents Snowden had recently handed to 
documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald.

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