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Re: [privacy] Qwest Explains Rejection of NSA Requests
From: "Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:53:11 -0400
[snip] The telecommunications company Qwest turned down requests by the National Security Agency for private telephone records because it concluded that doing so would violate federal privacy laws, a lawyer for the telephone company's former chief executive said today. In a statement released this morning, the lawyer said that the former chief executive, Joseph N. Nacchio, made the decision after asking whether "a warrant or other legal process had been secured in support of that request." Mr. Nacchio learned that no warrant had been granted and that there was a "disinclination on the part of the authorities to use any legal process," said the lawyer, Herbert J. Stern. As a result, the statement said, Mr. Nacchio concluded that "the requests violated the privacy requirements of the Telecommunications Act." [snip] "In an unrelated story, Mr. Nacchio was found dead this morning in his bathroom due to multiple gunshot wounds to the head. Police believe that the wounds were caused by a car accident and have closed the case". (Hey, this is FunSec, right?) --Keith Keith Young, Security Official Department of Technology Services Montgomery County, Maryland phone - (240) 777-2955 _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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