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U.S. Intelligence Chiefs Want to Absolve Spying Telcos

Ryan Singel writes on Threat Level:

Never let it be said that spy snoops don't remember their friends. In fact the nation's top spy proposes to hand a "get out of jail free" card to any telecommunications company that helped spy on Americans in the last 6 years.

The provision would retroactively immunize telecoms that are being sued with some success for allegedly turning over whole databases of domestic phone call records and helping the govenrment spy on Internet traffic and cross-border phone calls in violation of the nation's privacy laws.

posted by Fergie @ 4/18/2007 09:16:00 PM