AT&T Sells Foreign Call Logs To CIA For $10 Million A Year

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) provides the Central Intelligence Agency with foreign call logs, including internationally placed calls made by U.S. citizens, for $10 million a year without a court order or any other sort of official pressure. If one of the numbers belongs to a U.S. customer the number is apparently masked to satisfy legal constraints, but metadata is still included, reports Jacob Kastrenakes for The Verge. AT&T foreign call sales This program is different from the ongoing National Security Agency revelations mostly because it seems to be legal. The NSA and CIA are barred from spying on Americans, but spying on…