The Phone Company and the Feds — a Buddy Movie from Hell

For over 65 years, this private-public alliance has partnered in surveillance, changing the laws when they seemed to get in the way. Will this story ever change?

by Susan Crawford

This month’s news that AT&T has evidenced “extreme willingness to help” the NSA collect, filter, analyze, and disseminate billions of communications by Americans wasn’t particularly surprising. After all, the giant phone company has been tightly involved with America’s national security operations for decades.

The obvious next question: Who will get to boss whom around? I offer three data points that may help us find an answer.

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