AT&T rejects ‘transparency report’ shareholder demand; FBI can secretly turn your laptop camera on
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AT&T rejects ‘transparency report’ shareholder demand; FBI can secretly turn your laptop camera on
By George Chidi
Saturday, December 7, 2013 21:31 EST
In the age of modern digital surveillance, AT&T can keep its silence about what it tells the government, while the FBI can make your laptop keep its silence even while it’s secretly filming you.
Shareholders are pressing AT&T to disclose what it does with its customers’ data in light of NSA requests. But AT&T has flatly refused to do so, and sent a letter Thursday to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to that effect.
The AP reported Saturday that AT&T said it protects customer information and complies with government requests for records “only to the extent required by law
Last month, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, an AT&T shareholder, filed a shareholder resolution calling on the telecom giant to be more transparent about the way subscriber data is shared with the government. The resolution calls for semi-annual reports detailing information about government data requests, similar to the transparency reports now being issued by Facebook, Google and Microsoft.
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They won't like what they see, a saggy wrinkled 67 year old woman.
... Internet Rule #34. No exceptions.
- GILF's are just experienced cougars......
Thanks for the chuckle
But you can't change the old without a vision for a new. Otherwise you just keep repeating the different versions of the same kinds of mistakes. Like war. And yet many appear to me to be thinking in terms of ''fixing'' the existing system we have. A system that is inherently flawed -- on purpose.
A system that equates living human flesh with a concept on paper. The difference being that the human flesh must defend the concept to the death while the concept has no such obligation. Quite the contrary, the concept enriches itself from the willingness of the human flesh to die in its stead.
- What we require now is a paradigm-shift in our thinking. The power they have, is ours because we give it away to them. We take it back by refusing to acknowledge the old, and by building anew. We gave ourselves this right, right from the start.
