http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=2&
so you were paranoid before, now you might want to add schizophrenia to that.
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls — parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency’s hotly disputed collection of phone call logs.
do those who oppose the keeping of your phone info do they oppose those numbers of drug dealers and criminals or are they just opposed when they think it might be their number on the books, can't have one without the other, how would they know who was the criminal if they did not screen all calls? freedom for freedom is the cost to much?
The Hemisphere Project, a partnership between federal and local drug officials and AT&T that has not previously been reported, involves an extremely close association between the government and the telecommunications giant.The government pays AT&T to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987.
my cell is at&t got a knee jerk as i read that but i'm not doing anything wrong so what the fuss if it stops drugs or terrorist.
Hemisphere covers every call that passes through an AT&T switch — not just those made by AT&T customers — and includes calls dating back 26 years, according to Hemisphere training slides bearing the logo of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Some four billion call records are added to the database every day, the slides say; technical specialists say a single call may generate more than one record. Unlike the N.S.A. data, the Hemisphere data includes information on the locations of callers.
there is no free lunch as it is no free freedom. recognize you either wantit or you don't but you must pay the piper
