The United States government and one of the country's largest telecom carriers are once again embroiled in a mass surveillance controversy ... Hemisphere project, AT&T receives "indirect ...

It won’t be the first time that AT&T cooperated so directly with law enforcement. It was given retroactive immunity for its role in NSA surveillance programs under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

The NSA uses the web of eight AT&T hubs for a surveillance operation code-named FAIRVIEW, a program previously reported by The New York Times. The program, first established in 1985 ...

He added that while AT&T and Verizon only provide notice of surveillance of phone lines paid for by the Senate, T-Mobile informed his staff that it will provide notice for senators' campaign or ...

The proposals at AT&T and Verizon, which are scheduled to be voted on at the companies’ annual meetings in spring 2014, note that controversy over U.S. government surveillance programs has spurred ...

Having been caught up in the surveillance controversy, they are braced for battle. NPR's Tom Gjelten dubs that battle the NSA versus the techs. TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: Here's the conflict.

Sen. Ron Wyden said in a letter that one U.S. phone carrier turned over Senate data to law enforcement without notifying the target.

spoke about ways in which AT&T gained information that would be used in connection with National Security Agency information requests for domestic surveillance. He also responded to telephone ...