AT&T - All your data are belong to us!
 

Someone set us up the bomb.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/21/BUG9VJHB9C1.DTL&hw=at&sn=002&sc=870

The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it "to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."

Thom,

I better not view your post from my SBC... ahem AT&T account at home. AT&T will intepret your bomb post as a message to me and with your full name listed, we'll all be in trouble.

Glad I use Sprint...for now.....

As long as you're not doing anything wrong, what's the problem?

All Your Rights are Belong to Them.

you're just a tax-paying citizen, now go back to your corner and STFU

(tongue in cheek)

even if you have Splint when you call someone who uses att they will listen to your call and report anything you do to the proper people.

what you gotta do is get all the people you call to switch to Splint, then you will be safe.

oh yeah,

A few years ago I was contracting for ATT. One of the employees decided that he wanted to listen in on some phone calls.

He patched into a dsx1 and was listening to this couple fighting. The husband was yelling at his wife, it was one of those "your cheating on me" fights.

The employee of att got on the line and yelled "damnit come back to bed" and a bunch of other **** like that.

He went to jail over it too,

but that was then this is now.

BTW that was the only CO I have ever been in where that kind of stuff went on.

I use to work for AT&T. The new policy states what has always been the case: Your phone records are records of business transactions that you have conducted with the phone company, therefore they belong to AT&T...not to you. Same as a grocery store recording what you buy so they can restock etc. That record belongs to them...not to you.

This is why I never saw what the big deal about the NSA rquesting phone records was about...they're not your phone records anyway.

I can virtually guarantee that ALL the phone, power and cable companies have similar policies.

Mmmmm, smell that freedom.

I'm glad that they're using legislative authority to maintain a telecommunications monopoly.
Too many choices for the consumer might confuse them.