19.08.2015 - 12:50 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

Was the NSA Trying to Outsource Responsibilty for Its Fourth Amendment Violations?

We‘re still sifting through the documents released as part of the recent bombshells in the press discussing AT&T‘s „extreme willingness to help“ the NSA in its mass spying programs. One area where the new documents add detail is the division of labor between AT&T and the NSA—according to the New York Times, at times „telecoms have done the sifting and forwarded messages the government believes it may legally collect.“