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The new policy, unlike the old one, spells out the fact that AT&T owns its customers data. It says that customer information constitutes ``business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.''

The earlier policy had simply said that, aside from normal business operations such as billing and service provisioning, the company could share customer information to ``respond to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process, to the extent required and/or permitted by law,'' as well as to ``to establish or exercise'' its legal rights.

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It also said that before customers use its services they must agree to the policy, an element that was not in its previous guidelines.

It's a brave, brave, brave, brave, new world.


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