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TECH & SCIENCE

AT&T Spying Program Is 'Worse Than Snowden Revelations'

BY ANTHONY CUTHBERTSON ON 10/26/16 AT 12:51 PM EDT

At&T hacking snowden fight for the future

An AT&T logo, New York City, October 23. Advocates have called recent revelations surrounding the company "terrifying."

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A for-profit surveillance program carried out by telecommunications giant AT&T was more serious than the 2013 NSA spying revelations, according to digital rights advocates.

AT&T's Project Atmosphere was unveiled Tuesday by the Daily Beast to be secretly selling customer data to law enforcement agencies for the purpose of investigating everything from murder to medical fraud.

Digital rights group Fight for the Future says that making customer data available to local police departments without a warrant goes beyond the government-level surveillance revealed by former NSA contract worker Edward Snowden.

"AT&T customers are outraged but this affects everyone," Evan Greer, campaign director at Fight for the Future, tells Newsweek. "AT&T went far beyond complying with legal government requests and actually built a powerful data mining product to sell our private information to as many government agencies and police departments as they could.

https://www.newsweek.com/att-spying-program-worse-snowden-revelations-513812