Already done! Moved over to Vonage years ago... due mostly to tremendous degradations in customer service by AT&T and other monsters over the years.

Guess what . . .

That is the way it is with ALL business records!

Don't believe me? Ask the police if they have to get a warrant to get your telephone or banking records. There is NO guarantee of privacy in business records and there never has been.

Some businesses may initially resist and force the cops to go and get a warrant, but usually they gladly cough them up because they can be compelled to do so and a judge will issue a warrant in a second with the thinnest justification.

As far as the ownership of business records goes, who else would own them? Do you own your medical records or do they belong to the doctor or hospital? Don't know!

They belong to the doctor and the hospital. Don't believe me . . . check your home state's laws. Its right there. Always has been.

These issues have been settled by the Supreme Court long ago.

I'd suggest you check your public records like property records. I'll bet you'll find your social security number and a whole bunch of other stuff you'd rather not have divulged.

If you really want to send a message, cancel your subscriptions to the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. The recent stories that those rags have published laying out exactly how the governments of the world track money transfers to track terrorists just made us a lot less safe.

They'll also be the ones that place the blame on Bush for not safeguarding us when the next big terrorist attack kills a bunch of innocent Americans.

Makes me wanna PUKE!

A new and brash low but doesn't ISP snooping exist especially in EUland, so that would include VOIP.
Maybe Linux phone might be the only way to go.

No. AT&T may own the records, but they do NOT have my permission to sell same. They CAN release via court order, or to other internal divsions or affiliated (real catchy work that)companies.

Re: Cancelling subscriptions to NY Times, LA Times as suggested by Barry.

No, again. I applaud their work and hope they intensify their efforts. If it comes to a choice between NY Times, LA Times and such reporting vs. Bush and his folks - I pick the former.

Bush and his policies have further incited terrorism rather than dimished its threat.

I hope this terrorism thing doesn't get to out of control as we live in such a paranoid culture and it's getting worse. It just seems with Open source and Open Standards these threats are contained.
Am I wrong?
I understand what abusers or Terrorists online and with robots could do but this is getting insane. How far do we go? Do we really trust the government that much is more the question.

Amendment III

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Today we live in a digital age where everything is virtual. We have virtual soldiers online now on our phone and computer's property. I think the Bill of Rights needs to be ammended for this tech update.

Mr. Bill Goodelle has an apparent slip in his "logic". IF they own them they do NOT need your permission to sell them.

AT&T should be put out of business for the things they did and Bush should be impeached or forced to resign for what he has done.

Nixon was given the treatment he deserved for spying on his own, where is this american justice when Bush does the same thing?

on the terrorist threat note... I feel no terror and neither should you. any god fearing person should never fear death . it is your passage to heaven. why be afraid?

If we feel no terror then the terroist have failed. if i die today in a bombing, it is because it was my time to go, not because some terrosist wanted it so.

Certainly the commentary shows how volatile this issue has become. The responses are a bit irrational as you can see. Barry suggests randomly quitting a newspaper subscription thinking that it might send a message of sorts. However, isn't that similar to the feeling of being exposed by AT&T?
And look at Heath, who wants to shut them down for complying with Bush while in the meantime having the same terrorist mentality that there is another "life" after this one that will be much, much better. The difference being that Heath doesn't want to take anyone out and is willing to accept that "the time has come" while the terrorist expects many virgins IF many of the enemies are taken out, especially if they were unaware of the impending doom.