AT&T IS REPORTEDLY GETTING PAID $10M FOR VOLUNTARILY GIVING CALL DATA TO THE CIA

By law, telecom and Internet companies are often compelled to give up user data when subpoenaed or court ordered. But a new report suggests AT&T voluntarily provides the CIA with call data and is paid more than $10 million a year in exchange for its services.

According to the New York Times, the information is used in overseas counterterrorism efforts. The CIA gives AT&T phone numbers of suspected terrorists. The phone company searches its database and provides call records that could help identify others involved in a case.

A report in September revealed AT&T maintained call records – information that included who called whom, call time, duration and location — on “every call that passes through an AT&T switch” with records going back 26 years.
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