White House defends snooping of Verizon phone records

snoopy · Jun 9, 2013

It seems more and more that we are losing our privacy. What are your thoughts on the latest spying on users of the internet in the U.S? This has been on the news - also happening in the U.K. but not in Canada so far or maybe we just do not know about it.

White House defends snooping of Verizon phone records

The White House is defending the decision to collect the telephone records of U.S. citizens by labeling it an anti-terrorist measure.

The move by the National Security Agency to gather the phone records of Verizon customers was revealed on Wednesday by U.K. newspaper The Guardian. A court's top-secret order forced Verizon to hand over information about domestic and overseas calls "on an ongoing daily basis."

The court order, which can be seen on The Guardian's Web site, forces Verizon to release all call details or "telephony metadata" created by the carrier for communications between the U.S. and abroad and within just the U.S., including local calls.

The White House hasn't exactly confirmed the report from the Guardian, according to the Associated Press. However, the White House did acknowledge that it has been collecting a large amount of phone records from at least one U.S. carrier, Reuters reported.

The Obama administration called the need to gather this information a "critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats," both Reuters and AP said.
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More here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57587974-83/white-house-defends-snooping-of-verizon-phone-records/

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