Lost amidst all the talk of Google and Microsoft is the fact that AT&T hasn’t had a very good few weeks with netizens, a fact that isn’t necessarily surprising, considering the company’s long – and sometimes confrontational – history with the Internet.
The most damaging claim against AT&T is one made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation just yesterday, which purports that the telecommunications giant voluntarily turned over customer records to the National Security Agency, according to this IDG News Service story.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), based in San Francisco, filed the suit against AT&T for giving the NSA direct access to its databases of communications records, including whom their customers had phoned or sent e-mail to in the past. The suit was filed Tuesday in the United States District Court of the Northern District of California.
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