{"id":2336,"date":"2006-05-12T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T09:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2006-05-12T09:50:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T09:50:48","slug":"passionate_serv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2336","title":{"rendered":"Passionate Service from AT&#038;T Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailypage.com\/daily\/node\/1482\">Kristian Knutsen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> read with great interest the biggest issue burning up the internets today, a USA Today article about the National Security Agency (NSA) collecting a database of phone records with the assistance of AT&#038;T, Verizon and Bell South. &#8220;For the customers of these companies,&#8221; USA Today reports, &#8220;it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made &#8212; across town or across the country &#8212; to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having been an AT&#038;T Wisconsin customer since it was named SBC, I take this news seriously and immediately thought of two questions I&#8217;d like my phone company to answer. Were records of my calls made via AT&#038;T included in data provided to the NSA? If so, did this violate the company&#8217;s privacy obligations as a service provider?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonblogs.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&#038;search=AT%26T\">AT&#038;T<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristian Knutsen: read with great interest the biggest issue burning up the internets today, a USA Today article about the National Security Agency (NSA) collecting a database of phone records with the assistance of AT&#038;T, Verizon and Bell South. &#8220;For the customers of these companies,&#8221; USA Today reports, &#8220;it means that the government has detailed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}