{"id":45876,"date":"2013-06-27T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/telecoms-implicated-in-bush-era-domestic-spying-now-starting-privacy-coaltion\/45876\/"},"modified":"2013-06-27T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:00:38","slug":"telecoms-implicated-in-bush-era-domestic-spying-now-starting-privacy-coaltion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/telecoms-implicated-in-bush-era-domestic-spying-now-starting-privacy-coaltion\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecoms Implicated in Bush-Era Domestic Spying Now Starting 'Privacy Coaltion'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politico<\/em> is reporting<\/a> that a group of leading telecommunications corporations has announced that they are forming a privacy coalition to “focus on updating U.S. privacy and data security laws.”<\/p>\n

\"\" Photo: Ken\/cc\/flickr <\/span><\/span>Among the 21st Century Privacy Coalition members are Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and the United States Telecom Association, and “will be headed by former Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and former U.S. Representative Mary Bono Mack of FaegreBD Consulting.”<\/p>\n

The Hill<\/em> reports<\/a> that<\/p>\n

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The group will push for privacy and data security laws that “better serve consumer expectations as well as technological and competitive changes in the communications marketplace.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Remarking on the news of the coalition, Tim Karr of Free Press<\/a> tweeted<\/a> “What could possibly go wrong?” and added:<\/p>\n

AT&T was sued<\/a> in 2006 for collaborating with the NSA’s widespread domestic spying program<\/a> by handing over communications of millions of Americans.<\/p>\n

As Robert Reich wrote<\/a> back in 2007:<\/p>\n

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… executives at the nation’s biggest telecoms — AT&T, Verizon, and others — didn’t blink an eye when the National Security Agency came knocking. You want records of domestic phone calls? Sure, help yourself! Emails? Yeah, we got tons. They’re yours!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The telecoms were later granted immunity for their involvement with the dragnet surveillance.<\/p>\n

Now, in the wake of new revelations of NSA spying brought to light by whistleblower Edward Snowden, some of these same telecoms are apparently interested in “privacy” and “better serv[ing] consumer expectations.”<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on: Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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