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Silicon Valley Leaders Outraged by Latest NSA Revelation

K. Oanh Ha writes in The Mercury News:

Revelations that the government has collected phone-call records of millions of Americans touched off a political firestorm Thursday in Washington that spread quickly to Silicon Valley, where the news fueled outrage among business and community leaders -- particularly those who make a lot of overseas calls.

Triggering the furor was a USA Today report that at least three companies -- AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth -- turned over call records for millions of their customers to the super-secret National Security Agency, which searches them for patterns to help identify terrorist networks. One source said the goal of the program, put into place shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, is to build a database of every call made within the country.

Critics said the massive collection of phone records violates Americans' privacy and raises disturbing questions about the government's reach into personal lives.

posted by Fergie @ 5/12/2006 07:49:00 AM