Telegiganten AT&T var NSAs spion-partner – Dagbladet.no

According to The New York Times, which has been given access to classified documents from the American defector Edward Snowden, has existed a particularly good relationship between the National Security Agency (NSA) and AT & amp; T.

It has long been known that US telecom companies more or less voluntarily assisted the NSA, but AT & amp; T, according to the documents been in a unique position and proved “extremely willing to assist,” the newspaper said.

spying on UN

Documents from the period 2003 2013 reveals among other things how AT & amp; T, which is the largest US telecommunications company, let NSA install monitoring equipment at least 17 of its data centers in the United States.

NSA could thus scan billions of emails, including those who went to or from the United Nations -hovedkvarterer in New York who is a customer of AT & amp; T.

Partnership

The documents also show that the NSA’s top secret budget for cooperation AT & amp; T was more than twice as high as for other telecom company.

In one of the leaked documents reminds NSA their employees to be extra polite during visits by AT & amp; T’s various facilities.

– This is a partnership, not a contractual relationship, it is emphasized in the document.

Forced

According to The New York Times, it is unclear whether the partnership has changed in character since the first revelations started coming from Snowden two years ago.

When it became known that the US data and telecommunications company had felt pressured to assist the NSA to spy on millions of people.

Data companies have since gone out hard and now claims that they have now adopted new encryption solutions to protect their customers, while telecom companies have been more reluctant to comment.

Tapped cables

A group of AT & amp; T customers have sued, accusing the company of violating the constitution, while the authorities for their part have done their best to keep most secret about NSA activities.

Snowdon documents reveal how the NSA and AT & amp; T everything 30 years ago working with us to tap fiber optic Fairview cable that ran between Japan and the United States.

The documents also show how telecom company Verizon has assisted the NSA to spy on data traffic via these cables.

(NTB)