Wydeen: AT & T, T-Mobile and Verizon.

Senator Ron and Eden Send a message For his fellow members of the Senate on Wednesday, it revealed that three main transport companies for American mobile phones had no rulings to notify legislators of government monitoring requests, despite the contractual requirements to do so.

In the letter, Widen, a democratic and long member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the investigation conducted by his employees found that AT & T, T-Mobile and Verizon had not notified of Senators for legal requests-including the White House-to investigate their phones. Companies “indicated that they all now offer such a notice,” according to the message.

It was politico The first to report Widan message.

Widen’s message comes in the wake of the report last year by the Inspector General, who open The Trump administration in 2017 and 2018 secretly obtained the records of calls and text messages of 43 employees in the Congress and two legislators in the House of Representatives, and imposed gag orders on the phone companies that received requests. Confidential monitoring requests were It was first revealed in 2021 Adam Chef, who was at that time the highest democratic time in the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee.

“The executive sub -monitoring is a major threat to the independence of the Senate and the founding principle to separate the authorities,” Widen wrote in his letter. “If law enforcement officials, whether at the federal level, or even the local level, can obtain the data of the Senate members in secret or the date of communication, then our ability to perform our constitutional duties is severely threatened.”

“We comply with our obligations to the Senate Sergeant in ARMS”, and that the phone company “has not received any legal demands regarding the Senate offices under the current contract, which started last June.”

When asked if AT & T received legal demands before the new contract, Bayers did not respond.

Widan said in the letter that one of the unveiled carrier “confirmed that he had handed over the Senate data to law enforcement without notifying the Senate.” When TECHCRUNCH reached it, Widan Keith Chu spokesman said that “we do not want to discourage companies from answering the Senator and hands.”

Verizon and T-Mobile did not respond to a comment.

The message also mentioned Google Fi and US Mobile and Cell Cell CellWhich has all policies to notify “all customers about the government’s demands whenever they are allowed.” The United States has adopted a mobile phone and CAPE policy after communicating from the Widan office.

Zhou told Techcrunch that the Senate “has no contracts with smaller transport companies.”

Ahmed Khatak, the founder and head of the American company Mobile, told Techcrunch that the company “did not have an official customer notification policy regarding monitoring requests before the Senator and Eden inquiries.”

Khatak said: “Our current policy is to notify the clients of the summonses or legal demands of information whenever we are lawful to do so and when the request is not subject to a court order, a legal gap ruling, or any other legal restrictions on the disclosure,” Khatak said. “As far as we know, the United States has not received any monitoring requests targeting the phones of the Senators or its employees.”

CEO CAPE JOHN Doyle referred to the company privacy policyAnd, which states that CAPE responds to legal requests, but “its subscribers will notify any legal process that seeks to disclose their accounts, and thus gives you the opportunity to challenge this request”, unless this is legally prohibited. “Until now, CAPE has not received any requests for a subscriber’s data that contains an obligation other than disclosure,” says privacy policy.

She did not respond to Google to request a comment.

Widan’s speech also notes, after Congress enacted in 2020 for the Senate data kept by third -party companies, the ARMS sergeant has updated their contracts to request phone companies to send notifications for monitoring requests.

Widan said that his employees discovered that “these decisive notifications did not happen.”

None of this protection applies to phones that are not officially issued to the Senate, such as the campaign or personal phones of the Senate members and its employees. In the letter, Wyden encouraged his Senate colleagues to switch to transportation companies that now provide notifications.

Updated to include a comment from Cape John Doyle and Correction of the Us Mobile’s Founder’s title.