Evangeline Bruce, The LA Chronicle
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The area code, also known as the Number Plan Area (NPA), of a phone number, is extremely important. These three digits are what generally identify a geographical calling area of a switch that provides telephone devices within the area service. The NPA typically applies to the United States and Canada.
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The Age
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With the recent release of reams of phone records from a woman accused of running a Washington prostitution ring, bloggers and others online have taken up the cause of hunting for links to elected officials and other prominent people.
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JONATHON GATEHOUSE, Macleans.CA
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Jennifer Stoddart is a dedicated public servant who has spent years — first working for the province of Quebec, and since 2003 as the federal privacy commissioner — trying to protect Canadians’ personal information from prying governments and greedy businesses. A lawyer by trade, she has impeccable qualifications for the job, with a strong background in constitutional law and human rights.
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By Stephanie Griffith in Washington, Sunday Times,
THE US Congress will investigate revelations that a US spy agency has been tracking the phone records of tens of millions of Americans as President George W Bush insists that privacy rights are not under threat.
Members of Mr Bush’s Republican party and opposition Democrats expressed alarm at the newspaper report that the National Security Agency (NSA) was building an unprecedented database of phone records with the help of three main telephone companies.
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By ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE, The New York Times
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WASHINGTON, May 11 — Congressional Republicans and Democrats alike demanded answers from the Bush administration on Thursday about a report that the National Security Agency had collected records of millions of domestic phone calls, even as President Bush assured Americans that their privacy is “fiercely protected.”
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By CANDACE HECKMAN AND PHUONG CAT LE, Seattle PI
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Even if telephone companies turn over customers’ phone records to the government, customers would likely never be able to find out for sure and would have little recourse in any event.
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By ANNE MARIE SQUEO
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WASHINGTON — The government’s use of sophisticated data-mining technology to monitor phone calls — but not necessarily listen to them — is prompting a fierce debate about whether the government and phone companies are undermining the privacy rights of Americans.
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By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY
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The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
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Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
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George Bush tried desperately yesterday to defuse the news that the three biggest telephone firms in the US provided the National Security Agency with the records of billions of calls made by Americans.
The revelation that the warrantless wiretapping authorised by President Bush was far more sweeping than the administration has admitted could derail the confirmation of Michael Hayden, a former director of the agency, as new CIA chief.
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Annalee Newitz, Wired
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The afternoon of Sept. 18, 1993, someone set fire to a notorious Los Angeles drug house near the University of Southern California, killing an addict. Four years later, R&B singer Waymond Anderson was convicted of the murder, based on the shaky testimony of two eyewitnesses, and on a third, silent witness whose implacable digital testimony the defense didn’t dare challenge: Anderson’s cell phone.
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