“We should always worry when we see big business and big
government getting cozy,” warns Reason Managing
Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward about Verizon’s new
contract with the Department of Interior. Under the
10-year, $10 billion contract, Verizon will provide cloud and
hosting services. 

This contract has caused some to question Verizon’s relationship
with the federal government. In June, the
Guardian reported that the National Security Agency (NSA)
had ordered Verizon to hand over phone records of its customers to
the U.S. government.

According to a Wall Street Journal article
posted Tuesday night, the NSA has developed a surveillance network
that can reach about 75 percent of all Internet traffic in the U.S.
This is considerably more internet survellience than intelligence
officials have previously disclosed to the public.

Air Date: August 20, 2013

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