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AT&T Wants to Share Data with Feds
AT&T Inc. will begin requiring its 7 million Internet customers to agree that the company owns their account information and can share it with government or law-enforcement agencies. Privacy advocates criticized AT&T's move, which is to take effect today, but the nation's largest phone company said it merely is updating and clarifying its privacy policy. "The spirit of the privacy policy and the practices have not changed," spokesman Michael Coe said. "There has been no change to how we collect, use or protect our customer information."
Privacy advocates said it was noteworthy that AT&T claims to own customers'
Story Continues Below records - and forcing customers to go along. "That's a significant change and very disappointing as a consumer," said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a nonprofit privacy-advocacy group. AT&T made the change as it fights a lawsuit filed by a privacy group that accuses it of helping antiterrorism officials monitor networks without court-approved warrants. San Antonio-based AT&T will require Internet and video customers to agree that it owns their account information and can share it "to protect its legitimate business interests." © 2006 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Editor's note:
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