Amazon, AT&T speak up after NYT stories
The New York Times published a scathing report about working conditions at the retail site and an article claiming the telecom giant helped the U.S. government spy on customers.
Stories published in The New York Times over the past weekend put two huge companies on defense.
A Saturday piece reported that AT&T had assisted the National Security Agency “spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic.” Specifically, the article asserts that AT&T has given the agency access to “billions of emails” and provided technical assistance for wiretapping.
In the article itself, an A&T spokesman simply said the company doesn’t comment on matters of national security. The company added a little more in its response to CNN Money, saying “that it only provides information to investigative agencies through a court order or ‘other mandatory process,’ unless a person’s life is in danger and ‘time is of the essence.'”
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