AT&T says it owns your personal info

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Jun 23, 20062 mins

If there was ever a better time to drop AT&T as your telecommunications provider and switch to a VoIP service I can’t think of it.

People need to vote with their feet, so to speak. By unsubscribing to AT&T you will be telling them their new policy on who owns your private information sucks.

Read IDGs Steve Lawson for the full story, “AT&T claims subscribers’ data as its own.” But in essence, AT&T announced as of today, Friday, June 23rd its new policy. Here in a nutshell is what it says.

“While your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process,” reads the policy.

Under the guise of having to comply with government snooping what else might AT&T do with your personal information?

If business is bad I suppose it can “protect its legitimate business interests” by selling your info to another company. After all, if they don’t sell it their business interests may suffer.

This is a new low as far as I am concerned.