By CoyotePrime (Reporter)
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 “Corporate Corruption: They Don’t Give A Damn”
 by Karl Denninger

“Well now. You know those “Terms and Conditions” where everyone says we respect your privacy? Really? All of them have carve-outs for valid legal process, of course. Nobody in business is willing to go to jail for you, nor should they be. That would be flatly unreasonable. But- there is a difference between going to jail for someone and being their lapdog, especially when the “requests” made are not targeted at individuals who are under suspicion but rather are for everyone’s records. If you don’t push back against those “requests” there is no adversarial process- you’re simply a collaborator with the government that is seeking to and in fact is destroying all pretense at privacy.
 

“WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly declassified opinion from the government’s secret surveillance court says no company that has received an order to turn over bulk telephone records has challenged the directive.”

Got that? Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint- none of them give a damn about your privacy as no company has challenged any of these snoop-n-grab “bulk collection” directives. Not one. It’s better- there is an explicit statutory mechanism to challenge these orders. But none of the firms have.

So there you have it folks- the claims that these firms “protect your privacy” is a flat, bald-faced lie and it matters not which alleged “company” you do business with. They’re all extensions of the government. Welcome to 1984. Oh, and **** you AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint- and the others.”

- http://market-ticker.org/

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