Two more Apple amicus briefs

[grarpamp@gmail.com (grarpamp)]

> https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2746620/Apple-Amicus-Brief-by-Airbnb-EBay-Twitter-and.pdf
> https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2746626/Apple-Amicus-Brief-From-AT-amp-T.pdf

It may interest reader interpretation that the former companies may
speak around being somewhat interested in customer privacy (even if
perhaps motivated / bound by their own datamining TOS / profit interests
rather than genuine), where old buddy AT&T may just want to be told
what to do (given telecoms freewheeling events in history) while not
mentioning any particular ethos themselves. Discuss...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-brief-history-of-the-united-states-governments-warrentless-spying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveillance_requests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAINWAY
She also noted that no U.S. telecommunications company had legally
refused to turning over customer metadata, "despite the mechanism for
doing so".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Eagan