The FBI wants to pay the major telecommunications companies to retain their customers' Internet and phone call information for at least two years for the agency's use.
The proposal "is circumventing the law by paying companies to do something the FBI couldn't do itself legally," said Michael German, American Civil Liberties Union policy counsel on national security.
"Going around the Fourth Amendment by paying private companies to hoard our phone and internet records is outrageous."
The proposal has raised concerns by civil libertarians who point to telecom companies' alleged involvement in the government's domestic surveillance program and to a recent Justice Department inspector general's report on FBI abuse of national security letters.
We suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg on your government spying on YOU.
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