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US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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A senator has complained that American law enforcement agencies snoop on US citizens and residents, seemingly without regard for the privacy provisions of the Fourth Amendment, under a secret program called the Hemisphere Project that allows police to conduct searches of trillions of phone records.

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago

Well that's at least one step removed from what they were doing in the 90's, when Verizon(?) dta centers had direct connections for feds to snoop.

I don't remember the details, just that it was a big deal at the time. And I'm just sure they stopped doing it, right?

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