Mondo Times Law Poll Archive

This poll ran from February 11 to 17, 2008.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"Telephone and cable companies have been spying on their customers." True 674/75% False 223/25%

Votes: 897

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) speaking on December 16, 2007. In the article "President lacks tech awareness," published in the February 4, 2008 issue of eWeek magazine, Roy Mark wrote that "Dodd vowed to filibuster any bill granting immunity to the carriers. "For the last six years, the telecom companies have been spying on their customers without warrants," Dodd said.

Writing about the renewal of FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), Mark added that "The carriers contend they relied on existing federal, state and local laws, as well as assurances from the highest level of government, to provide customer telephone and e-mail records -- often without a warrant or subpoena -- to the government."

"The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the co-lead counsel in the nearly 40 pending lawsuits against the major telephone carriers, contends the carriers broke the law by providing the National Security Agency with the full content of billions of e-mail messages, text messages and VOIP (voice over IP) calls."

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