Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., asked the Justice Department to explain...
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., asked the Justice Department to explain the growth in wireless record requests from law enforcement agencies, in a letter sent Wednesday to Attorney General Eric Holder. Markey’s inquiry said the practices of law enforcement agencies, “along…
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with the enormous amount of requests, range of information provided, and large numbers of consumers involved, raise a number of important privacy concerns,” (http://xrl.us/bngis5). The letter came after nine wireless carriers, in responses made public Monday, said they had received more than 1.3 million federal, state and local law enforcement requests for cellphone records in 2011 (CD July 10 p1). Markey asked Holder to disclose how many times Justice has requested mobile phone records in the past five years, how much money DOJ spent to compensate wireless carriers for the data requests, whether individuals were notified when their information was transmitted to the Justice Department and what legal standards the department used to justify the requests. Markey asked Holder to respond by Aug. 1. A DOJ spokeswoman did not comment.