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USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: CIA Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data

09 November 2013

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“The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company’s vast database of phone records, which includes Americans’ international calls, according to government officials… The C.I.A. supplies phone numbers of overseas terrorism suspects, and AT&T searches its database and provides records of calls that may help identify foreign associates, the officials said. The company has a huge archive of data on phone calls, both foreign and domestic, that were handled by its network equipment, not just those of its own customers.”

See the article: CIA Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data (New York Times, link)

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