T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless Shielded from NSA Sweep

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15 points·jdp23··6 comments

TechCrunch took this article, excerpted it badly, and gave it a misleading headline -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5882123

"Available to WSJ.com Subscribers"

http://archive.is/hPGfu

Too bad I'm such a cheapskate, as I refuse to pay for such content, but viewing the source gives some idea of what it's about.

I find it ludicrous that the spies won't gather data from foreign owned TelComs when it's been common knowledge that all foreign communications in & out of the USA have been under scrutiny for years now.

http://aapd0418.com/2013/06/13/bush-lets-u-s-spy-on-callers-...

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Timeline-of-revel...

Doesn't anyone remember the SCOTUS granting immunity to Verizon et al for their participation in the unconstitutional domestic surveillance program?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/29/us-telecom-immunit...

SCOTUS didn't grant immunity. They essentially held there was a valid state secrets privilege claim by the government, and thus, the plaintiff would not be able to actually prove their case.

This is very different.

Now, the decision was still bullshit, but for a very different reason :)

Ah, my bad for parroting headlines.

Whatever happened, it's a convoluted mess better suited to Communist East Germany.

Thanks for the clarification.

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