The Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell contradicted the government and his own legal defenses of the nations’ telecoms by telling an El Paso newspaper that the companies helped the government with its warrantless wiretapping program. That program ran from October 2001 to January 2006 without court supervision, but now gets special program warrants from […]
Posted on August 31st, 2007 by lbraum
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from Digitalspy: Channel 4 is to stop using phone-in competitions in its programmes as part of its new policy on the use of premium rate phone services.
The launch of the new policy coincides with publication of the findings of an internal investigation into the You Say We Pay competition in Richard & Judy. Channel 4 […]
Posted on August 7th, 2007 by lbraum
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An FBI unit reportedly facing a criminal investigation for Patriot Act abuses is asking Congress for $5.3 million in 2008 to pay three telecoms to build data centers to store Americans’ communication records for years in order to provide the FBI “near real time” access to Americans’ phone and internet records.
The FBI already pays three […]
Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by lbraum
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