One of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States, AT&T has an "excellent partnership for decades" relationship with the National Security Agency (NSA) as announced on Saturday.
Citing recently ανακοινωθέντα έγγραφα της NSA που χρονολογούνται από το 2003 έως και το 2013, η εφημερίδα New York Times ανέφερε ότι η AT&T χαρακτηρίζεται από την υπηρεσία collectiondata as "extremely cooperative" with a "great willingness to help" in government surveillance of the Internet.
In June of 2013, Edward Snowden leaked thousands of documents to the media. New leaks show that AT&T has given the NSA access to "billions of emails that have passed through its home networks," the Times reported.
The report also said that AT&T also provided "technical assistance" for "intercepting telephone communications of all United Nations Internet communications."
Those documents also show that the NSA's budget for its relationship with AT&T was double what it used for other companies, as AT&T provided 17 of its US Internet nodes for monitoring.
The Times also reports that the new documents do not name AT&T, but that an analysis by its reporters revealed "considerable evidence data που δείχνουν την εταιρεία.”
According to leaked documents, within the first few months of the NSA-AT&T partnership, the service gained access to "400 billion metadata files."
The Fairview program also began collecting "more than a million messages a day using the keyword selection system" at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade.
By 2011, AT&T delivered “over 1,1 billion domestic calls mobile,” just months before the tenth anniversary of the 11/2013 attacks. By 60, the program was “processing XNUMX million messages a day sent by strangers to strangers.”
"It is a partnership and not a contractual relationship," said one of the documents, which referred to AT&T's relationship with the NSA, indicating that it was highly cooperative rather than mandatory.
