[IP] more on Uh? Verizon Issues Statement on NSA and Privacy Protection
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From: "RJR RJRiley.com" <RJR@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 14, 2006 9:33:01 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [IP] Uh? Verizon Issues Statement on NSA and Privacy
Protection
For IP if you wish.
This is an incredible example of doublespeak at it's best. After about
forty years as an abused customer I have to say that Verizon still
very much
demonstrates it's roots in GTE. Both are incompetent in so many ways
it is
funny, well funny except when it comes to wholesale violation of law.
Telcos rank right near the top as patent pirates. The whole industry
routinely conspires to appropriate inventor's property. They are
down right
brutal. I have observed that companies who are ethically challenged
in the
intellectual property arena often suffer ethical impairments in a
multitude
of other areas and this flagrant abuse of people's constitutional
rights by
telcos is consistent with their moral and ethical judgment in other
aspects
of the way they do business.
"Patent pirates" are usually large multinational companies who pirate
others
intellectual property and abuse the process of law to bankrupt the
owners of
that property before they can get their day in court. After many
decades of
such abuses the inventor community has developed pretty effective
countermeasures and rather than change their ways patent pirates howl
about
how those inventors whose property has been stolen morph into nasty
"patent
trolls". I guess we are all products of our environment.
Perhaps if we all work together we can box the nasty telcos in that nice
regulatory cocoon which they nurtured to protect obscene profits and see
them wither in the face of new innovation like VOIP. They are
dinosaurs who
should be mercifully laid to rest for the benefit of society at large.
Ronald J Riley, Exec. Dir. Ronald J Riley, President
InventorEd, Inc. Professional Inventors
Alliance
www.InventorEd.org www.PIAUSA.org
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From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: [IP] Uh? Verizon Issues Statement on NSA and Privacy Protection
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From: Alice Kehoe <akehoe@xxxxxxx>
Date: May 13, 2006 8:10:48 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: brendan@xxxxxxx, derry <derry@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Verizon Issues Statement on NSA and Privacy Protection
Dave - For IP, if you wish. As a Verizon customer, for the moment, I
find
rather small comfort in this statement; to me, it smacks of Dubya's
"trust
me" attitude. Simply not good enough, by several miles. --A :(
Verizon Issues Statement on NSA and Privacy Protection
May 12, 2006
Media contact:
Peter Thonis, 212-395-2355
NEW YORK -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) today issued the
following
statement:
The President has referred to an NSA program, which he authorized,
directed
against al-Qaeda. Because that program is highly classified, Verizon
cannot
comment on that program, nor can we confirm or deny whether we have
had any
relationship to it.
Having said that, there have been factual errors in press coverage
about the
way Verizon handles customer information in general.
Verizon puts the interests of our customers first and has a longstanding
commitment to vigorously safeguard our customers'
privacy -- a commitment we've highlighted in our privacy principles,
which
are available at www.verizon.com/privacy.
Verizon will provide customer information to a government agency only
where
authorized by law for appropriately-defined and focused purposes. When
information is provided, Verizon seeks to ensure it is properly used for
that purpose and is subject to appropriate safeguards against
improper use.
Verizon does not, and will not, provide any government agency unfettered
access to our customer records or provide information to the government
under circumstances that would allow a fishing expedition.
In January 2006, Verizon acquired MCI, and we are ensuring that
Verizon's
policies are implemented at that entity and that all its activities
fully
comply with law.
Verizon hopes that the Administration and the Congress can come
together and
agree on a process in an appropriate setting, and with safeguards for
protecting classified information, to examine any issues that have been
raised about the program. Verizon is fully prepared to participate in
such a
process.
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