Report: AT&T is helping the NSA with surveillance using secret buildings throughout the US

A report published by the Intercept alleges that AT&T has eight buildings across the US which are used to collaborate on surveillance with the NSA. Found in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC, these "peering" facilities are home to networking equipment through which a lot of US and global internet traffic is routed. The Intercept says that there is a lot of evidence to suggest that "the buildings are central to an NSA spying initiative that has for years monitored billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across US territory".… [Continue Reading]