AT&T voluntarily spied on customers for the government when other companies refused to. They were complicit in illegal spying and got away with it. The warrantless wiretapping bill was passed, complete with immunity from civil litigation for AT&T.
Today, it’s legal for any telecommunications company to do this. Since AT&T is a first tier ISP, your internet traffic is likely to be routed through their servers at some point.
Here are some photos of AT&T that I found surfing the web.
From Flickr
From imgur
From imgur
From flickr
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Technorati
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