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发帖数: 3150 | 1 If it were the 1950s and the feds were in cahoots with the phone company to
root out communist spies, it would hardly be an issue. The press might even
choose not to report on it.
Obviously, much has changed since then. Most notably, a sweeping digital rev
olution has given the federal government and other 揹ata minersa vast capa
bility to monitor the behavior of nearly every U.S. citizen. That has produc
ed the mushrooming controversy over the government抯 anti-terrorism scrutiny
of Verizon抯 (VZ) call logs as many as 1 billion phone calls per day pl
us the apparent monitoring of servers operated by the world抯 biggest Intern
et companies, including Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple (AAPL) and Micro
soft (MSFT) (which deny cooperating with the government). The Wall Street Jo
urnal reports government surveillance extends to other phone companies, incl
uding AT |
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