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It may interest reader interpretation that the former companies may speak around being somewhat interested in customer privacy (even if perhaps motivated / bound by their own datamining TOS / profit interests rather than genuine), where old buddy AT&T may just want to be told what to do (given telecoms freewheeling events in history) while not mentioning any particular ethos themselves. Discuss... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-brief-history-of-the-united-states-governme... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveillance_requests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAINWAY She also noted that no U.S. telecommunications company had legally refused to turning over customer metadata, "despite the mechanism for doing so". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Eagan