AT&T reportedly had close 'partnership' with NSA giving agency access to emails

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) worked in close "partnership" with the National Security Agency for decades to give the spy agency information about billions of emails, according to media reports. The reports, in the New York Times and ProPublica, used NSA documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. According to the reports, AT&T, whose AT&T Mobility unit is based in Atlanta, gave the NSA access to information about emails contained within its networks and permitted the NSA to monitor communications…
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