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| Cell phone records report triggers |
| Cell phone records report triggers US outrage
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 6-June-2013
20:30:10 PM |
| : Civil liberty groups and privacy campaigners reacted with outrage today to a report that the US intelligence community, under President Barack Obama, is pursuing the wide-scale monitoring of millions of Americans' cell phone records.
"It's a program in which some untold number of innocent people have been put under the constant surveillance of government agents," said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
"It is beyond Orwellian, and it provides further evidence of the extent to which basic democratic rights are being surrendered in secret to the demands of unaccountable intelligence agencies."
Former vice president Al Gore, on his Twitter feed, agreed: "In (this) digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?"
The Guardian newspaper in London reported Thursday that Verizon, one of the major US mobile phone operators, is under a top-secret court order to give the National Security Agency details on all telephone calls, both domestic and international, made on its networks.
Reproducing the court order on its website, the Guardian said it shows for the first time that under Obama's administration, the phone records of millions of Americas are being indiscriminately collected by the National Security Agency (NSA) "regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing."
The White House did not explicitly confirm the report, but a senior official acknowledged Thursday that collecting phone records was a critical part of the ongoing US war on terrorism.
The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit digital rights group, alleged that such "untargeted, wholly domestic surveillance" has been going on for at least seven years, when George W. Bush was president.
"It is very likely that business records orders like this exist for every major American telecommunication company - meaning that, if you make calls in the United States,
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