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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Yahoo, Verizon Fight Release of Spy Data

By Ed Brayton

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A curious grad student may have revealed that internet companies like Yahoo and Verizon are making a huge amount of money from the government for turning over your private data to them.

Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?

That's the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed a few months ago.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 16, 2009 (boomark / email).

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