ACLU Condemns Phone Companies’ Role in FBI Datamining, Reaffirms No Amnesty for Telecoms: "Washington, DC - The American Civil Liberties Union today condemned reports that telecommunications companies datamined their customers' records at the request of the FBI. The requests, first reported by the New York Times, asked phone companies to identify the ‘communities of interest’ of customers being scrutinized by the FBI and were brought to light in documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The FBI has since ceased the demands."

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