Sprint Only Carrier to (Briefly) Question NSA Data Collection According to the Washington Post, Sprint was the only telecom carrier to ask the government for their legal rationale to justify the NSA's ever-expanding warrantless wiretapping operations back in 2010, before much of it was revealed by Edward Snowden. While Sprint was different from their fellow carriers in that they at least asked the government for justification (as opposed to saying "how high"?) Sprint's questions didn't last long. quote: In early 2009, Sprint received an order saying that all customer call records had to be turned over to the government, officials said. In the summer and fall, the company’s executives met several times with Justice Department officials to understand how Section 215, which compelled companies to turn over records relevant to investigations, could be used to mandate the transfer of all call records.Dissatisfied with their answers, Sussmann, the Sprint attorney, wrote a petition to challenge the order. In late 2009, shortly before the petition was to be filed, Robert S. Litt, the U.S. intelligence community’s top lawyer, pressed officials to provide the legal rationale to Sprint, according to a former administration official. "The real story here is the almost complete failure of the telecoms to protect their subscribers’ interests," notes the ACLU. "The real story here is the almost complete failure of the telecoms to protect their subscribers’ interests," notes the ACLU.







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topics flat nest kxrm

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Fort Worth, TX kxrm Member Won't stop people... ...from continuing to whole-heatedly gulp down mobile service. BosstonesOwn

join:2002-12-15

Wakefield, MA BosstonesOwn Member Re: Won't stop people... sheeple... lots of em in this country not a 1 uses logic to question these clowns

xsprinttech

@74.115.237.x xsprinttech Anon Why now? So, in 2007 when Sprint installed gigarouters in it's long distance wireline switches for the NSA, without question, why did they decide, 2 years later, to question turning over records when they already had IP data pipes in every LD switch? Maybe Sprints lawyers didn't get the memo. dudeman456

join:2005-04-29

New York, NY dudeman456 Member odd It must have been because Sprint was stalling due to the difficulties in managing it's own network.



This is odd seeing as Sprint was the go to network for all telecom monitoring, Sprint used to promote the infrastructure it was allowed to build to access all other carrier lines.

antonio010

join:2002-11-24 antonio010 Member Hmm I could have sworn I read a report a couple years back stating that Qwest was the only company that had stood up to the NSA.



Soo now Sprint partially had a spine? ophelus

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Kansas City, MO ophelus Member umm.. Umm the story states.. their lawyer had a spine..

w0g

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Springfield, OR w0g Member gulping down wireless service..



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tc1uscg

join:2005-03-09

Guantanamo tc1uscg Member Re: gulping down wireless service.. Sounds like something from the "X" files. your comment..

