Cell Carriers Responded Last Year To 1.3M Law Enforcement Data Requests

Stirling Newberry writes "The New York Times reports: '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.' One stinging statistic: AT&T responds to an average of 700 requests per day, and turns down only 18 per week. Sprint gets 500,000 requests per year. While many requests are backed by court orders, most are not. Some include 'dumps' of tower data, which captures everyone near by at a certain time."

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Re:the survellience state is totally out of contro

[grantspassalan]

"how long till they pass a law requiring you to buy a smart phone"

According to the US Supreme Court, such a law will just be another tax.There is already a law on the books requiring a GPS device in every car and eventually they will require a chip to be implanted in every baby and later in every adult. 666 It is not only possible, but will be a reality in the not too distant future.