08.12.2016 - 19:56 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

Shareholders Demand Transparency for AT&T’s Hemisphere Phone Records Spying Program

A group of investors in AT&T have had it with the phone company’s collaboration with law enforcement through the Hemisphere program, in which the company facilitates police access to trillions of phone records. At the spring shareholder conference, Zevin Asset Management plans to force discussion of contradictions between AT&T’s stated commitment to privacy and civil liberties and the Hemisphere program. One of the chief goals is to demand greater transparency over the highly secretive program.