Maine asks Verizon for privacy guarantees, clarification sought in NSA eavesdropping case

Bangor Daily News ^ | August 8, 2006

[mad_mainiac]

AUGUSTA - State utility regulators are giving Verizon Communications two weeks to provide adequate guarantees the company has not violated privacy laws by cooperating with a domestic surveillance program.

During a brief meeting Monday, Kurt Adams, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, said a press release from Verizon stating it had not cooperated with the federal government by facilitating eavesdropping on private conversations or maintained an informational database for the National Security Agency was insufficient for the commission to render a finding in a request for an investigation lodged by 22 Maine residents

[mad_mainiac]

I feel so much better that the government of Maine (which can't run a state of just over a million people) is getting into matters of national security!

[HawaiianGecko]

said a press release from Verizon stating it had not cooperated with the federal government by facilitating eavesdropping on private conversations or maintained an informational database for the National Security Agency was insufficient for the commission to render a finding in a request for an investigation lodged by 22 Maine residents.

So Verizon has to prove it did nothing wrong?  Rather than Maine proving they did.  How do they do that? Bring records that don't exist to the commission!

[Doctor Raoul]

Land for peace. Just give Maine to Al-Qaeda and there will be peace in our time.

[bert]

maine might need to be purged and ceded to the matitime area.

[muawiyah]

Since your typical communications common carrier is regulated by the FCC, odds are will be referred to the FCC for an answer.

Alternatively, the common carriers could simply pull out of Maine.

[wolfcreek]

This is just part of a muti-directional attack on the NSA program.