[telecom] Covert FBI Power to Obtain Phone Data Faces Rare Test

Jul 19, 2012 0 Replies

In today's "Latest News from Sophos Security" I read:


Telecom firm says "No" to FBI surveillance demands
> In a case that has been cloaked in secrecy, a phone company
> is fighting an FBI request to access customer records.

The phone company involved *may* not be identified, under the obligatory nondisclosure requirements of the applicable NSL (National Security Letter) issued early last year, but the full Sophos commentary, at


,

and yesterday's WSJ article breaking the news more than a year later, at


make chilling reading.


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