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antdude
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Cell Carriers Responded Last Year To 1.3M Law Enforcement...

»apps.beta620.nytimes.com ··· nted=all from »yro.slashdot.org/story/1 ··· requests ...

StuartMW
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What's the problem? So the gummint knows everywhere you go, everyone you call and everything you post. What's the worst that could happen?

Blackbird
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said by StuartMW:

... What's the worst that could happen?

The gummint drowns in their ocean of vacuumed-up, innocuous information, missing the real threat signals that are out there and leading to a catastrophic thermonuclear terrorist "incident"?
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Duncan Hurst
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Re: Cell Carriers Responded Last Year To 1.3M Law Enforcement...

1.3+ million? That's wholesale surveillance of the American Public. That's a gross violation of privacy, and possibly the constitution. This should be criminal.

Time to ditch the cell phone for anyone that has one. Tracfone still has anonymous phones, buy it with cash from Target, activate it (but don't turn it on) from a public terminal or proxy. Tracfone has a small fine print option to activate it anonymously at the bottom: »xoom.cc/images/2012/07/0 ··· rKy9.jpg Take a drive, turn on the phone for the first time and initialize it. The reason for that is every phone is GPS tagged at the location it is first setup. In this case, it would be a roaming location and invalid.

Now when your phone comes up on the databases of various agencies it shows 'Unknown UID".. Sure they can eventually figure it out, but not without effort, and people devoted to the task of doing this and this isn't blazingly easy and automated like it is for everyone else. Make them fight for anything from you, and as you do this you help those of us that already do by becoming more 'noise' for them - that is more people that are privacy aware adds further to the privacy.

dslcreature
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said by Duncan Hurst :

1.3+ million? That's wholesale surveillance of the American Public. That's a gross violation of privacy, and possibly the constitution. This should be criminal.

Source documents provided by each carrier provide quite a bit more information and context on requests and reasons for each.

Quite interesting per major carrier the number seems to be roughly 200k each/yr between warrants and subpeonas.

»markey.house.gov/content ··· orcement

Sadly if you cross reference this astounding figure with the even more astounding number of arrests each year things quickly go from 1.3m is a lot...to that's it??

»www.fbi.gov/about-us/cji ··· bl01.xls

There may be an issue with data collection and carriers but it seems there is an even bigger issue with society in general.

My guess any covert/scary extra-constitutional data collection schemes have no chance of showing up in these figures anyway