Well, at least they're admitting it

Not having read the specific wording of this change in policy, I wonder if it is retroactive, that records collected prior to this change are also subject.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc. said on Wednesday it was revising its privacy policy, explaining to customers that it owns their phone records and can hand them over to law enforcers if necessary. ....

Under the new policy, which was being mailed out to AT&T's more than 7 million Internet customers, the company also said that it would track viewing information for customers of a television service it is developing in order to help it make recommendations to customers based on their viewing habits.

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

(And, let's remember it was just two days ago that Salon published it's piece detailing possible NSA involvement at AT&T's internet backbone in St. Louis. (if you watch the ad, you can read the article.))