Voters mad about NSA spying face uphill battle

[dipsydoodle]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charlotte Scot isn't one to take things lying down - like the time President George W. Bush was re-elected and she moved to Canada in protest.

So when the 66-year-old artist from Old Lyme, Conn., heard that major telecommunications providers have been turning over data about every Americans' phone calls to the government since 2006, Scot demanded that her own phone company tell her what, if anything, it had shared about her.

She soon received a non-response from an unnamed customer service representative informing her how to opt out of its marketing program, which only made Scot angrier.

"Dear Anonymous," Scot fired back in an email, "I have always opted out of all advertising emails. ... However, my question was not about advertising. It was about what information AT&T turns over to the federal government and NSA. I appreciate an answer to this question."

AT&T eventually responded with a link to its privacy policy and a promise that, while it doesn't comment on matters of national security, "we do comply with the law."

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. The apparatus of fascism .

[Demeter]

2. I am thinking that a national boycott of telephones, internet and broadcast

might bring this nonsense to its knees.

Take away their money AND their peepholes, and the 1% will scream. But maybe, just maybe, they will repent, as well.

[kelliekat44]

3. This entire issue has the GOP undies in a wad because so many of them support the spying.. Why..?

Because it has been in use for a very long time...long before Obama was in the Senate and it was used against liberal activists groups and renown civil rights activists. They are only carping about it now because they see this issue as a way to harm this administration and the President because their onslaught of fake scandals didn't work. They hate and love Snowden at the same time and there is a lot of faux outrage over this program (which, incidentally, will never change unless Congress changes) for political cover reasons. 2014 is going to be a tough time for voters and voter suppression will loom large because, I believe, that many on the right will be disgusted enough to stay home but the GOP will still have a larger percent of voters than the Dems going to the polls. Hate is a great motivator.

[xchrom]

4. du rec.