[privacy] FCC Will Not Probe Telco Disclosure of Phone Records

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via Reuters.

[snip]

The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission declined to
investigate reports that phone companies turned over customer records to
the National Security Agency, citing national security concerns, according
to documents released on Friday.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin turned down a congressional request for an
investigation as a top intelligence official concluded it would "pose an
unnecessary risk of damage to the national security," according to a letter
National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell sent to Martin on Tuesday.

Intelligence officials "support your determination not to initiate an
investigation," McConnell wrote to Martin.

At issue are reports last year that some big telephone companies allowed
the U.S. government access to millions of telephone records for an
anti-terrorism program.

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More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0535834320071005

- - ferg

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