AT&T Owns You

... if you happen to be a customer that is. The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that AT&T has rewritten it's customer policy to state, while your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T feels they have the right to do with as they wish.

You may recall that Google made a big stink about serving up details of web surfing habits of US citizens to the government -- while company's like AT&T cooperated fully with the government's request. As well, AT&T was one of the telcos that opened up and shared customer calling information with the NSA, when it was requested without a subpoena.

What the hell is happening in the US? Has privacy been totally lost? Are Americans still free?