All Your Calls Belong To U.S.
The National Security Agency has been secretly compiling the phone call records of Americans, with the help of AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, according to USA Today. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, an anonymous source said.
The White House denies this constitutes surveillance because the NSA isn't listening to calls but analyzing who called whom, a process known as social network analysis. Whether or not such data mining expeditions have any real benefit remains open to question — the NSA isn't talking about its operations.
But offering the government access seems calculated to garner regulatory favors. When government regulators consider the issue of Net neutrality, expect them to ask, "What has Google ever done for us?" A lot less than the telcos, evidently.
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