One Last Thing: Strike Us Realizing "That Privacy Is An Important Issue&Quo

Tough to take him at his word, though, things being how they are (see "AT&T. Your world, delivered (to the Government)," "Big Mother," "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen," and "Big mother, redux"). It's simple coincidence that AT&T, on the eve of a hearing on charges that it assisted in the government’s illegal spying on millions of Americans, changes its privacy policy to reserve the unqualified right to exploit the personal information of its customers in any way the company sees fit? Riiiiggggghhhhtttt.....(rolls eyes). "They're obviously trying to avoid a hornet's nest of consumer-protection lawsuits," Chris Hoofnagle, a San Francisco privacy consultant and former senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told The San Francisco Chronicle. "They've written this new policy so broadly that they've given themselves maximum flexibility when it comes to disclosing customers' records." http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2006/06/one_last_thing_.html#comments

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