Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers

[forrest]

Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?

That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed a few months ago. But before the agencies could provide the data, Verizon and Yahoo intervened and filed an objection on grounds that, among other things, they would be ridiculed and publicly shamed were their surveillance price sheets made public.
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers | Threat Level | Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/wiretap-prices?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Ind ex+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29)

[unclejoe]

. . . Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers. . .

so,
they're saying that,
basically,
their customers are 'stoopid'

[Crochety Carpenter]

I used to say "Boy I'll never have On-Star. 'THEY' will never track me!" I said this once on my cell phone and then thought...:D

[unclejoe]

zactly right, C.C. :33:

in applying for the various services,
people've already given THEM enough info to track them
and THEY would never divulge that information to anyone.

:rolleyes:

right