Level Three NSA Subsidiary

"In July 2013 Level 3 was accused of wiretapping large parts of data on the German Internet Exchange Point DE-CIX for the NSA,^[ and a few months later, was accused of tapping connections between Google and Yahoo data centers."
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"Level 3's chief executive James Q. Crowe, was named the fifth most highly paid chief executive in the New York Times' 2013 list of the most highly paid chief executives of U.S. public companies.


 In 2012 he was paid $40.7 million",
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"The company provides core transport, IP, voice, video, and content delivery

" for most"

 of the medium to large Internet carriers in North America, Latin America, Europe, and selected cities in Asia"
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