NSA Verizon snooping prompts exit by Wil Wheaton, Android hacker Koush

SlashGear ^ | June 6, 2013 | Chris Burns

[Olog-hai]

As NSA data collection from Verizon Wireless is defended this morning by no less than the office of the President of the United States, actor Wil Wheaton and top Android hacker/developer Koushik Dutta have announced their departure from the carrier. The order in question was revealed yesterday, having originated from the FBI and passed down to the public media by an anonymous source.

The order shows how the National Security Agency uses Verizon specifically to mine records of phone calls, numbers, and everything in-between for data. Data such as “unique identifiers”—unspecified beyond that, call length, number of individuals on each call, and more are collected per the order. …

[jsanders2001]

That’s it?! I guess Obama supporters don’t mind his snooping on them. It’s not like he would use anything against them if he wanted to, right?

[SMGFan]

Shut up Wesley! You supported the dear leader.

[UNGN]

Obama: “WHEATON!!!!!!!!!!!!”

[rollo tomasi]

[JCBreckenridge]

Wouldn’t that be, “Binks is the Wheaton of Star Wars?”

[jughandle]

Wonder who will be the first company to announce safeguards against government intrusion and spying, they’ll get LOTS of business.

[Black Agnes]

Yeah, but would you trust them?

[Vendome]

And?

Where are they gonna go and become invisible?

[rollo tomasi]

Touché my man.

[TChad]

[CodeToad]

ALL carriers do this. All of them.

[JRandomFreeper]

Calls can drop, but billing data WILL get collected. I saw more money put into billing systems than RF in the telecom world.

/johnny

[bgill]

Wil Wheaton is a conservative? Cool.

[LyinLibs]

[LyinLibs]

[packrat35]

Get a burner phone like I do. Its not linked to my name.

[Vendome]

My name is Michael Weston...

[NoLibZone]