The FBI and telecom companies collaborated to routinely violate federal wiretapping laws for four years, as agents got access to reporters’ and citizens’ phone records using fake emergency declarations or by simply asking for them. The Justice Department’s Inspector General’s internal audit released Wednesday harshly criticized how the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s  Communications Analysis Unit — a counterterrorism... 

AT&T has openly admitted that their data coverage sucks (here) and all but admitted defeat in the telcom data wars. although they are the sole service provider of the iPhone – the world’s most pervasive handheld data device – AT&T has decided that for them to maintain the service quality (which already blows) they will  Read More →