A disturbing report via National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell says Big Brother (that's the US government and its NSA if you haven't been keeping up) wants access to any email, file transfer and Web search. Their main ally so far in the security game: AT&T.
Raw Story article points to an article in the print edition of the New Yorker and a
"The infrastructure to tap into Americans' email and web search history may already be in place," reads the Raw Story report.
And telecommunications giant AT&T is one of the chief co-conspirators in developing that infrastructure, allowing the NSA to set up secret rooms to copy information coming across AT&T's network, foreign or domestic.
"…we're talking about phone conversations, email web browsing, everything that goes across the Internet," said Mark Klein, whistleblower and retired AT&T technician who helped make it possible for the NSA to spy on Americans.
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