AT&T's new policy on your phone records is surprising because they come out and tell it like it is. In this day and age one expects a company like AT&T to claim ownership over your phone call details by calling them business records. Google for example tracks all your moves online and many seem to be comfortable with that.

I for one am not so comfortable with this fact but it is a price I pay for using their service. If a better service came along and kept my records more private I may use it.

Thanks to AT&T's candor, customers can now decide whether it makes sense to use AT&T for phone calls or not. There are certainly other choices on the market.

The concern we should all have next is whether the content of our conversations will soon become business records as well.