Money Trail: Corporations Paid Big Bucks By NSA For Allowing Spying!

• Money Trail: Corporations Paid Big Bucks By NSA For Allowing  Spying! 
  by Daniel G. J., http://www.storyleak.com/
  Patriotism may not be the real reason why big companies like  AT&T, Google, and Verizon have been so eagerly  cooperating with the NSA’s eavesdropping on our private communications. The  Associated Press and U.S. Senator Elect Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) discovered  that the companies  get paid when the NSA spies on one of their customers in a story that  Storyleak is now highlighting from the back section of the  news.
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  Verizon charges Uncle Sam a $775 “activation fee” to set up a wiretap  and $500 a month to keep the tap up and running. AT&T (the former  Bell South) charges a $325 activation fee and $10 a day to keep the tap up and  running. Cricket and US Cellular each charge $250 per wiretap.
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  Wiretapping Is Big Business
  Since Verizon reportedly gets a quarter of a million requests for  wiretaps each month, it’s easy to see how this cash can add up. Verizon  admitted that it is paying 70 people to process wiretap  requests. A publicly traded company wouldn’t be doing that if its  management didn’t think it could make money off the expenditure.
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  It looks like these companies profit when government wants to violate our  rights. AT&T admitted that it made $24 million off of wiretap fees  between 2007 and 2014. Verizon refuses to divulge how much it is making  from the fees.
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  Big tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo don’t make as much when  the NSA reads chats and emails, but they might still be profiting. The AP  reported that the American Civil Liberties Union believes they get around $25  for email records. Since the AP didn’t report on the nature of the email records  or their numbers, it’s impossible to say how much the companies make from  this.
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