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Hemisphere Project: AT&T Hosting Massive User Database for DEA
#18928463 - 10/03/13 10:10 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/02-1
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. (Image: via government slideshowThe federal government, working in partnership with the private telecommunications giant AT&T, maintains an elaborate database of phone user data that surpasses anything even the NSA is using, according to new reporting by the New York Times.
Based on documents obtained by a New York citizen via a Freedom of Information Act request, the Times says 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."
Details of the program were made available in a series of slides released as part of the FOIA disclosure and are viewable here.
The secretive program, which has never been reported on before, raises significant privacy and constitutional concerns, the ACLU's deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer says. "One reason for the secrecy of the program is that it would be very hard to justify it to the public or the courts,” stated Jaffer.
As the Times reports—and Jaffer notes as of particular concern—the program, called Hemisphere Project, shows a deep coordination between private industry and government surveillance practices. According to the Times:
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The project comes to light at a time of vigorous public debate over the proper limits on government surveillance and on the relationship between government agencies and communications companies. It offers the most significant look to date at the use of such large-scale data for law enforcement, rather than for national security.
The scale and longevity of the data storage appears to be unmatched by other government programs, including the N.S.A.’s gathering of phone call logs under the Patriot Act. The N.S.A. stores the data for nearly all calls in the United States, including phone numbers and time and duration of calls, for five years.
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.
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Re: Hemisphere Project: AT&T Hosting Massive User Database for DEA [Re: leon trout]
#18928727 - 10/03/13 10:57 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Glad I switched to verizon
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Run
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Re: Hemisphere Project: AT&T Hosting Massive User Database for DEA [Re: niteman]
#18928971 - 10/03/13 11:49 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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verizon isn't any better >.>
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Re: Hemisphere Project: AT&T Hosting Massive User Database for DEA [Re: Run]
#18929231 - 10/04/13 01:08 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Run said: verizon isn't any better >.>
why do you say that?
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Re: Hemisphere Project: AT&T Hosting Massive User Database for DEA [Re: LSDreams]
#18929674 - 10/04/13 04:45 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Welcome to the 21st century shitheads
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Chuckfinely
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Re: Hemisphere Project: AT&T Hosting Massive User Database for DEA [Re: LSDreams]
#18930187 - 10/04/13 08:54 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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LSDreams said:
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Run said: verizon isn't any better >.>
why do you say that?
They're giving up just as much info as at&t. Maybe a little less volume but they're still putting everything on a silver platter for the feds.
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Re: Hemisphere Project: AT&T Hosting Massive User Database for DEA [Re: Chuckfinely]
#18930196 - 10/04/13 08:57 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Hemisphere Project: AT&T Hosting Massive User Database for DEA [Re: B_BOY]
#18930474 - 10/04/13 10:02 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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SKYPE!! its safer.. However get your lithium ion batteries ready
or some kind of VOIP with encryption...
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Re: Hemisphere Project: AT&T Hosting Massive User Database for DEA [Re: Grogan]
#18932560 - 10/04/13 06:25 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lol Skype is in no way safer. When the snowden leaks first happened they talked about how Microsoft was giving Skype data over no questions asked.
Edited by Tripbin (10/04/13 06:25 PM)
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