Does Verizon records case mean an end to privacy?
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par
Clifford Armion
le 06/07/2013
Eugene Robinson
Someday, a young girl will look up into her father’s eyes and ask, “Daddy, what was privacy?”The father probably won’t recall. I fear we’ve already forgotten that there was a time when a U.S. citizen’s telephone calls were nobody else’s business. A time when people would have been shocked and angered to learn that the government was compiling a detailed log of ostensibly private calls made and received by millions of Americans.
The Guardian reported Thursday that the U.S. government is collecting such information about customers of Verizon Business Network Services, one of the nation’s biggest providers of phone and Internet services to corporations. The ho-hum reaction from officials who are in the know suggests that the government may be compiling similar information about Americans who use other phone service providers as well.
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"Does Verizon records case mean an end to privacy?", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), juillet 2013. Consulté le 22/03/2023. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/does-verizon-records-case-mean-an-end-to-privacy-