AT & T allows the NSA to hide and monitor in sight, according to Intercept

The NSA reportedly set up stores in AT & T buildings across the United States.

The Intercept says it has identified eight AT & T facilities that are used for the National Security Agency's surveillance initiative. They would be linked to a program called "Fairview", launched in 1985, and AT & T is the only company involved in this program. The facilities are spread to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC, according to Monday's report.

"Like all businesses, we are required by law to provide information to the government and law enforcement agencies in accordance with court orders, subpoenas, legal discovery requests and other legal requirements," said Jim. Greer, Director of Communications AT & T. statement sent by email. "And we provide voluntary assistance to law enforcement when a person 's life is in danger and in other immediate emergency situations. In any case, we make sure that requests for assistance are valid and that we act in accordance with the law.

This is not the first time that the AT & T relationship with the government oversight agency is catching the eye. In 2006, Mark Klein, an AT & T technician, revealed meeting NSA officials and seeing domestic Internet traffic "diverted" to a secure room, 641A, in the AT & T building at 611 Folsom St. in San Francisco. This building is one of eight Intercept reports that "are at the heart of an NSA spying initiative that, for years, has overseen billions of emails," he said. 39, phone calls and online conversations across the US territory.

The issue came to the fore in 2013 when Edward Snowden released documents revealing NSA, Prism and Upstream surveillance programs. Programs intercepted communications from US citizens "accidentally" because the NSA could not separate information from suspects from that of the general public. The law that allowed these two programs was to expire in January of this year, but the Trump administration renewed them.

"The NSA can neither confirm nor deny its role in alleged intelligence activities," an NSA spokesman told CNET. "The NSA conducts its foreign electromagnetic intelligence mission under the legal authorities established by Congress and is held by both policy and law to protect the privacy and civil liberties of US citizens. In the interest of transparency, the government has declassified and published thousands of pages of documents regarding its collection activities in recent years.

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