The secretive collection of call records by the...
The secretive collection of call records by the National Security Agency and the private collection of phone records tapped by the Drug Enforcement Agency show how U.S. privacy laws fail, said American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Catherine Crump in…
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a Tuesday blog post (http://bit.ly/1dPvRgb). She cited details from a government presentation on the Hemisphere Project, published by The New York Times last weekend (http://nyti.ms/17EAh2e). That report showed how the government paid AT&T to access phone records going back multiple decades as part of its drug investigations. “The Hemisphere Project is similar to the NSA’s mass call-tracking program, in that both involve collecting vast troves of private phone records, virtually all of which are about innocent people,” Crump said. “Telecommunications companies are keeping far too many records about all of us and holding onto them for far too long.” She called for more government transparency about programs such as this as well as more information from the telcos about the customer data they retain.