{"id":991483,"date":"2026-02-12T08:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991483"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:03:34","slug":"us-telecom-firms-face-harsh-senators-questions-over-phone-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/us-telecom-firms-face-harsh-senators-questions-over-phone-records\/","title":{"rendered":"US telecom firms face harsh senators&#8217; questions over phone records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The largest U.S. telecom companies faced \u2060harsh Senate questions Tuesday after a Justice Department prosecutor obtained phone data from eight senators related to a probe of the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. <\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for AT&amp;T, Verizon and T-Mobile testified at a two-hour hearing before a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee after a disclosure \u200cin October of \u200ca 2023 document that showed the FBI obtained phone data known as &#8220;toll records&#8221; from senators&#8217; phones and all said they had new processes in place \u200cdesigned to protect lawmakers&#8217; privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The largest U.S. telecom companies faced \u2060harsh Senate questions Tuesday after a Justice Department prosecutor obtained phone data from eight senators related to a probe of the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. Lawyers for AT&amp;T, Verizon and T-Mobile testified at a two-hour hearing before a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee after a disclosure \u200cin October of \u200ca 2023 document that showed the FBI obtained phone data known as &#8220;toll records&#8221; from senators&#8217; phones and all said they had new processes in place \u200cdesigned to protect lawmakers&#8217; privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}