Monday, July 9, 2012
More Demands on Cell Carriers in Surveillance
Lightblau, Eric. "More Demands on Cell Carriers in Surveillance." The New York Times, July 8, 2012.
From the article: "In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone
carriers reported that they responded to a daunting 1.3 million demands for
subscriber data last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages,
caller locations and other information in the course of investigations.The
data, which comes in response to a congressional inquiry, documents an
explosion in cellphone surveillance in the last five years, with the wireless
carriers turning over records thousands of times a day in response to police emergencies,
court orders, law enforcement subpoenas and other requests. The cell carriers’
reports also reveal a sometimes uneasy partnership with law enforcement
agencies, with the carriers frequently rejecting demands they considered
legally questionable or unjustified. Carriers even referred some inappropriate
requests to the F.B.I." Read more
Labels:
civil liberties,
internet governance,
privacy