News reports of AT&T, Verizon and other phone companies sharing customer data with the National Security Agency without obtaining a warrant as required by law are alarming. There is a long history of abuse of surveillance by intelligence agencies. Public figures like Martin Luther King and John Lennon as well as countless other citizens were monitored during the Vietnam war by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI for no reason other than their opposition to government policies. Today, technology enables surveillance which is at once more intrusive and less apparent than ever before. Ensuring Americans can communicate privately in the absence of probable cause is more important than ever.

As You Sow is taking a leading role in challenging telecommunications companies on this critical freedom. We are mobilizing the investment community to press AT&T, Verizon and other telecommunications companies on alleged data sharing with the government and other routine invasion of customer privacy.

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