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SWBTATTReg

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2. A shame. When I worked for the telephone company, privacy of telephone communications whether...
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:54 PM
Jul 2020

delivered via land lines, or a virtual network, whether method, were absolutely hands off for monitoring (other than the normal flow of all traffic via that pipeline to ensure that the network itself was working aok).

Listening in on communications on the links themselves were absolutely a no no too. You would get fired (and you should be). We had it in our annual rules of business conduct we had to read and sign off on.

I truly respected the company (it was SWBT back then, now ATT) for its strict adherence to these guidelines.

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