Actually, they seem to be collecting CORPORATE phone records

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U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls (NYT)
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and EDWARD WYATT
Published: June 5, 2013

... The order ... directs a Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over ... all call logs ... Verizon Business Network Services is one of the nation’s largest telecommunications and Internet providers for corporations. It is not clear whether similar orders have gone to other parts of Verizon ...

[okaawhatever]

1. Should we be equally outraged since corps are people too? I think most people sign something on

their corp phones that says the company can see the records, etc. so i'm not sure the individuals involved will have too much to gripe about. The gov't isn't the same as your boss looking at the records, but most people know to selectively use their corp phones.

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2. It should come as a relief to those who consider every US corporation a terrorist organization!

[okaawhatever]

5. lol. perfect. nt

[KansDem]

3. I've wondered about this

All this spying without warrants. We're told it's to fight terrorism and make us more safe and secure, but could it be about corporations spying on corporations? Getting the inside dope on secret strategies and future plans?

One could learn quite a bit from the private phones of CEOs.

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4. (1) There is a warrant but it's a FISA warrant; (2) It authorizes call record collection but not

wiretapping