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The Obama administration has been quietly collecting millions of telephone records from U.S. Verizon customers under a top-secret court order first obtained in late April, according to British newspaper The Guardian.

A copy of the classified order, posted Wednesday on the newspaper's website, reveals that Verizon has been required to provide to the National Security Agency on an "ongoing, daily basis" information on all phone calls made through its systems.

Under the order, the government has obtained phone numbers of both parties on every Verizon call, the call's duration, location data and the time of day the calls were made. The order does not allow the government to listen in on the calls or obtain details of their contents.

Vaya wrote:I remember we had law called "emergency law", which extends police powers and almost suspend a person's constitutional rights, when people rebelled against the regime they removed that law, result? people are significantly less safe, criminals are free roaming doing whatever they want.. so, the morale of this is that such things won't ever affect you badly, don't start with the rights and privacy bullshit, let them do their job.

On the heels of a series of reports detailing the U.S. government's practice of tracking private citizens' phone and internet use, President Obama on Friday sought to downplay the invasiveness of the procedure, assuring a California audience that "nobody is listening to your phone calls," and that any data tracking is governed by comprehensive oversight spanning all three branches of U.S. government.

"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," Mr. Obama said, speaking at an event touting his health care law in California. "That's not what this program is about."

Earlier this week, the Guardian reported on a classified National Security Agency (NSA) program that involved collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone customers. The Washington Post also reported Thursday night that the NSA and the FBI have been mining data from the servers of nine American internet companies, and "extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets."

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USA Today wrote:http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.

Squirt wrote:I see nothing wrong with this. As long as they aren't recording the actual calls why have titty attack over it?

Aventus wrote:So now that we all know this is happening what are we going to do to stop it?

Ohh yea nothing.
It's fun and all to bring these things up and rage about the attrocities the government commits but it does nothing to stop it. People should just stop worrying about it and roll with the punches because no matter how much you bitch on a dead forum about it nothing will change.

Aventus wrote:to bring these things up and rage about the attrocities the government commits but it does nothing to stop it. People should just stop worrying about it and roll with the punches because no matter how much you bitch on a dead forum about it nothing will change.

*BlackFox wrote:

Aventus wrote:to bring these things up and rage about the attrocities the government commits but it does nothing to stop it. People should just stop worrying about it and roll with the punches because no matter how much you bitch on a dead forum about it nothing will change.

There's certainly nothing wrong with that!
Btw: Can you give an idea... about, how to stop the crazy things
that governments are doing? lulz

CrimsonNuker wrote:I don't understand why people are so concerned...
It's not like your phone records are the fed's only way of creeping into your lives.