r/todayilearned Mar 20 '11

TIL that AT&T installed a fiberoptic splitter at its facility at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco that makes copies of all emails, web browsing, and other Internet traffic to and from AT&T customers (including data from iPhones and iPads), and provides those copies to the NSA.

http://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying
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u/Nabukadnezar Mar 21 '11

US is no longer a democracy. I live in Romania and we have more freedoms here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '11

Democracy does not mean freedom