http://www.tomsguide.com/us/marcus-sachs-verizon-interview,news-17618.html
By Jill Scharr
Tom's Guide
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
"If you're worried about it, do something about it. Take security on
yourselves, and don't trust anybody else to do it."
At a recent security conference in New York City, that was the advice
Marcus Sachs, Verizon's vice president of national security policy, had
for people upset about Verizon's connections to the U.S. National Security
Agency (NSA).
Verizon is one of the large U.S. telecommunications providers closely
linked to the National Security Agency's widespread surveillance and data
collection programs, according to documents leaked by former NSA
contractor Edward Snowden.
News that Verizon supplies the NSA with customer phone records on an
"ongoing, daily basis" broke in June 6, 2013. It was the first story to
examine the top-secret NSA documents Snowden had recently handed to
documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald.
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