Carriers Got 1M Gov’t, Police Requests for Data in 2012

Requests for customer mobile phone data from federal, state, and local authorities topped 1 million last year

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Law Enforcement Wants Logs of Americans’ Text Messages…

AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans’ private text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal that police have submitted to the U.S. Congress

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Cell Carriers Are Selling Your Info To Police For Profit

Every wireless company insists that the fees it charges for handing over your information are just enough to cover expenses. But most of them—including Sprint, the company that gets by far the most requests for customer data—have refused to hand over actual figures.

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The Numbers: Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking

The vast majority of law enforcement’s demands that phone carriers and Internet services hand over users’ private data don’t require a warrant, and occur with little or no accountability

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