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.”
Filed Under: data collection, lobbying, metadata, nsa, nsa surveillance, privacy
Companies: verizon
Comments on “Verizon Lobbying Congress Over NSA Data Collection”
I’m confident they lobby for the NSA to collect data on their customers as long as they recieve money for the data and that money is larger than the cost of lobbying for that data to be collected.
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I’d actually bet that they’re lobbying at this point to make sure the government keeps it’s mouth shut about how cooperative they’ve been in violating constitutional rights, since that’s where the debate is clearly headed already…
"while various tech companies have been quite vocal"
Name three that have done anything more than token public relations efforts, while what they do in actual day-to-day operations is go along.
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?
They are probably doing this to get their dirty mutts on more Gov Money.And none of them give me a reason why I should ever Trust them.The Telcos got quite a bit to answer for already.
And they were worried spring wasn’t going to come. They seemed afraid of it, and yet they kept doing things to hasten its arrival.
Government. Contracts.
They are lobbying, because Verizon and AT&T receives cash rewards for every law-abiding customer’s metadata and location data they unconstitutionally turn over the the US Government.
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!
Given the penchant for the government punishing you for protesting in public, they might think that this is more likely to get results.
Obviously they are silent. They owe too much of their market control to the Govt and the Govt owes them too much for the donations. A perfect symbiosis.
Lobbying = attempt to get more money
No corporation lobbies for the protection of the public. If they are lobbying, you can be assured it is an attempt to receive more money in return for their tirelessly helping the NSA improve security.
Truth be told
There are some more responsible than others and they be held accountable both legally and commercially