More Concerns About NSA’s “Stellar Wind” and Meta-Data Collection

“… But an even more interesting revelation — one ultimately far more troubling — can be found in a regrettably less prominent sidebar to the main Newsweek story, entitled “Now we know what the battle was about”, by Daniel Klaidman. Put together with other reports about the program, it lends considerable credence to claims that telephone companies (including my alma matter AT&T) provided the NSA with wholesale access to purely domestic calling records, on a scale beyond what has been previously acknowledged…”

See also:

Court Rules Patriot Act’s “National Security Letter” Gag Provisions Unconstitutional

In Courtroom Showdown, Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms

A Cover for Illegal Domestic Operations?

Information Commissioner publishes freedom of information guidance for personal data