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

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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…

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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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Mobile Preps for Sandy

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Hurricane Sandy, what may essentially be the biggest storm to hit the North Eastern seaboard in history, is barreling toward us, through the Atlantic, at this very second

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Cell Carriers Are Selling Your Info To Police For Profit

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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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