This enables the government to have a much easier time of knowing what private people are up to without any sort of process or consent.
AT&T customers reasonably expect that their communications are private and have long trusted AT&T to follow the law and protect their privacy.
AT&T's customers reasonably expect that their communications are private and have long trusted AT&T to follow the law and protect that privacy.
Even worse, it shows how the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers. The logical next question is: what other deals have been or are being made to ensure that our technology rats on us?