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Qwest, In Effort to Protect Customer Rights, Gets in Trouble
By Jay Alan | October 11, 2007
How dare Qwest think they can protect freedoms given to American Citizens by the Consitiution of the United States of America when the Feds ask for information without due process!
The National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest.
USA Today reported in May 2006 that Qwest, unlike AT&T and Verizon, balked at helping the NSA track phone calling patterns that may have indicated terrorist organizational activities. Nacchio’s attorney, Herbert Stern, confirmed that Nacchio refused to turn over customer telephone records because he didn’t think the NSA program had legal standing.
It’s rare that I can say my ISP actually cares about my rights as a citizen, but it’s nice to see that at least Qwest is trying, even if they will probably ultimately fail in the long run. Gotta stop those, “terrorists”.
Source: Rocky Mountain News Via: Slashdot
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