US EditionWyden says senators weren’t warned about surveillance on phones
- Senator Ron Wyden warned on May 22, 2025, that senators were not informed about executive branch surveillance of their phones, including incidents of secret monitoring.
- This warning followed revelations from an oversight investigation showing that major carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile failed to notify senators as required by Senate contracts about surveillance requests.
- Wyden encouraged senators to change their personal and campaign phone providers to companies that alert users about government surveillance requests and introduced legislation to authorize the Sergeant at Arms to safeguard senators' phones and accounts from cyber threats.
- He warned that unregulated surveillance could hinder important oversight functions, damage the privacy of communications vital for legislative discussions, and weaken the legislative branch’s equal standing within the government.
- Wyden's call emphasizes ongoing surveillance risks that threaten Senate independence and urges adoption of new protections following incidents involving foreign and domestic threats.
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Ron Wyden warns senators about phone companies aiding executive branch surveillance
Sen. Ron Wyden is worried that several of America’s largest phone companies are ill-suited to prevent the Trump administration from spying on senators, and the Oregon Democrat is warning his colleagues to take precautions.
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden shared the results of his staff's probe into major phone companies in a Wednesday letter to congressional colleagues and also publicly highlighted which carriers disclose government spying to their customers. "An investigation by my staff revealed that until recently, senators have been kept in the dark about executive branch surveillance of Senate phones, because the three major phone carriers—AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile—fa…
'Our ability to perform our constitutional duties is severely threatened': Ron Wyden warns senators about Trump surveillance through phone companies | Attack of the Fanboy
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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., urged fellow senators Wednesday to investigate whether the phones they're using are protected from surveillance. The major carriers have different policies, he wrote in a "dear colleague" letter. In 2020, Congress enacted...
Wyden Warns Fellow Senators about Executive Branch Surveillance
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2025–Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter to his colleagues Wednesday, informing them that they had “been kept in the dark about executive branch surveillance of Senate phones, because the three major phone carriers — AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile — failed to establish systems to notify offices about surveillance requests, as required by their Senate contracts.”Wyden further warned his colleagues that their personal phones wer…
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