NSA Collection Of Verizon Phone Records Sparks Angry Reactions -- The Guardian
Round-up of Twitter reactions to the revelation that the NSA is collecting phone records of millions of US Verizon customers
The Guardian revealed on Thursday that the National Security Agency is collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of a division of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top-secret court order issued in April. Here we round-up some of the reaction to the story from Twitter.
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More News On Commentaries, Opinions, And Analysis On The NSA Collecting Verizon Phone Records
Obama's Verizon surveillance reveals massive erosion of US civil liberties -- Jonathan Turley, The Guardian
Obama's Verizon phone records collection carries on Bush's work -- Richard Seymour, The Guardian
NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily -- Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
What An NSA Domestic Spying Operation Looks Like -- Frontline
The N.S.A.-Verizon Scandal -- Amy Davidson, New Yorker
Obama's Security State Now Out of Control -- Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph
Civil liberties groups react to report on government collecting phone records -- FOX News
'Can You Hear Me Now?' Social Media Reacts Bitterly To NSA Surveillance Of Verizon -- Betsy Isaacson, Huffington Post
Privacy Groups Furious Over Secret NSA Verizon Order -- Mashable
Liberals Can't Ignore the Verizon Phone Records Scandal -- Jordan Fabian, ABC News
Obama’s Phone Spying May Be Distasteful, But it’s Legal -- Adam Weinstein, ABC News
The Secret Law Behind NSA's Verizon Snooping -- Noah Feldman, Bloomberg
Big Brother is Watching Your Cell Phone -- Megan McArdle, Daily Beast
Wake Up, America: You're Letting Your Privacy Slip Away -- Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
'Outrageous': Verizon reportedly forced to turn over customers' phone records -- CNN
NSA Spying: An Obama Scandal? -- David Corn, Mother Jones
What does the Verizon order mean for me? -- Michael Pearson, CNN
3 Key Questions for the White House on the Verizon Phone Record Dragnet -- Terry Moran, ABC News
NSA spying on Americans is an outrage -- Jay Bookman, AJC
Should the Government Stop Collecting Phone Records? -- Teresa Welsh, US News and World Report
Verizon, Telephony Metadata, the National Security Agency and You -- Doug Aamoth, Time
Court order forcing Verizon to hand over call data 'in place since 2006' -- The Guardian
Verizon court order: telephone call metadata and what it can show -- The Guardian
Q. and A. on the Domestic Surveillance Program -- New York Times