Internet and Phone Wiretaps -- We Pay To Tap Own Wires?

[HerefordSire]

You might want to make sure you read this...

Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would 'Shock', 'Confuse' Consumers

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/wiretap-prices

 

[ga. prime]

Okay, I read it. Much too wordy.

 

[HerefordSire]

Okay, I read it. Much too wordy.

In the summer of 2009, I decided to try and follow the money trail in order to determine how often Internet firms were disclosing their customers' private information to the government. I theorized that if I could obtain the price lists of each ISP, detailing the price for each kind of service, and invoices paid by the various parts of the Federal government, then I might be able to reverse engineer some approximate statistics. In order to obtain these documents, I filed Freedom of Information Act requests with every part of the Department of Justice that I could think of.

 

[ga. prime]

Yeah, I read that and the rest of it. Wish I had something to sell the g-men.