“U.S.
telecom giant AT&T helped the country's National Security Agency
(NSA) spy on vast Internet traffic, the New York Times reported on
Saturday. The U.S. telecom giant has a unique and productive
cooperation with the NSA and this cooperation involved a broad range
of classified activities, the newspaper said, citing newly disclosed
NSA documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden,
which dated from 2003 to 2013.”
“The
company gave the NSA access, through several ways, to billions of
emails flowing across its domestic networks, and all Internet
communications at the United Nations headquarters, one of its
customers, the daily said. It installed surveillance equipment in at
least 17 of its Internet hubs on American soil, far more than its
competitor Verizon.”
“AT&T's
corporate relationships provided unique accesses to other telecom or
Internet service providers, one of the documents said. The company's
sorting of data has allowed the NSA to have different surveillance
powers, including that over foreign-to-foreign traffic as large
amounts of the world's internet communications travel across American
cables, it added. Other U.S. telecom companies also had cooperation
with the NSA, including Verizon, the newspaper said.”
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