AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T – news) said on Wednesday it was revising its privacy policy, explaining to customers that it owns their phone records and can hand them over to law enforcers if necessary.
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The changes take effect on Friday and come at a time when AT&T and other phone companies face lawsuits claiming they aided a U.S. government domestic spying program by giving the National Security Agency call records of millions of customers without their permission.
AT&T said the updated policy was aimed at helping customers understand its practices better and does not change how it treats customer information.
The new policy, unlike the old one, spells out the fact that AT&T owns its customers data. It says that customer information constitutes “business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.”
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So…let me get this straight.
Big Business is aloud to OWN our privacy.
That means you stupid people with AT&T got owned.
LOL.
Thats why I say Orwells 1984 Big Brother wont be in the form of Govt control but rather by private multi-national corporations knowing and in many ways controlling everything about you. If they know all your habits hangups likes and even dislikes they can then manipulate you in the marketplace into acting and doing as they so desire.
Well I don’t have AT&T so I win!
I dislike cable companies too so until there are more choices I’ll have to wait!
See this is why Microsoft is so much smarter than AT&T. Microsoft would have just called this a “Security Update”.