Verizon Lobbying Congress Over NSA Data Collection
from the but-of-course-they-are dept
The latest lobbying disclosure forms are out for lobbying efforts in the second quarter, and as Dave Maass points out, wouldn't you know, Verizon's lobbyist, Mike McKay disclosed that he was lobbying the House of Representatives on "NSA's data collection of of phone records."Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: data collection, lobbying, metadata, nsa, nsa surveillance, privacy
Companies: verizon
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"while various tech companies have been quite vocal"
Edward Snowden: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and the rest of our internet titans must ask themselves why they aren't fighting for our interests the same way -- MAYBE, Ed, it's the billions they get BEING snoops?
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In other words, they're paid snitches. They don't want to see that double dip money go away.
First they charge customers to use the services, then they charge the government to hand over a law-abiding customer's information to the NSA.
Double profits!
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Lobbying = attempt to get more money
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Truth be told
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