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Title: Phone Companies Failed To Warn Senators About Surveillance, Wyden Says

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/22/0156...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) revealed in a new letter to Senate colleagues
Wednesday that AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile failed to create systems for
notifying senators about government surveillance on Senate-issued devices --
despite a requirement to do so. From a report: Phone service providers are
contractually obligated to inform senators when a law enforcement agency
requests their records, thanks to protections enacted in 2020. But in an
investigation, Wyden's staff found that none of the three major carriers had
created a system to send those notifications. "My staff discovered that,
alarmingly, these crucial notifications were not happening, likely in
violation of the carriers' contracts with the [Senate Sergeant at Arms],
leaving the Senate vulnerable to surveillance," Wyden said in the letter,
obtained first by POLITICO, dated May 21. Wyden said that the companies all
started providing notification after his office's investigation. But one
carrier told Wyden's office it had previously turned over Senate data to law
enforcement without notifying lawmakers, according to the letter.

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