AT&T Alters Privacy Policy to Allow Sharing of Account Data
With all the talk about personal privacy and Internet data lately, I thought some of you might find this bit about AT&T’s change to its customer privacy policy interesting.
"AT&T Inc. is changing its privacy policy for Internet and television customers to specify that account information is a business record the company owns and can be disclosed to government and law enforcement and to protect the company’s ‘legitimate business interests.’"
Disclosure: I am an AT&T customer.
June 24th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Still?
Though on the interception side, it was apparently helping with the collection of data streams fromother carriers as well, soaskign them not to interconnect with AT&T is also required.
By way of contrast, consider what one of the thinkers at Yahoo is describing as desirable policy: “data belongs to those that create it” at http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006372.html