Documents show AT&T secretly sells customer data to law enforcement

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But according to internal company documents revealed Monday by the Daily Beast, Hemisphere is being sold to local police departments and used to investigate everything from murder to Medicaid fraud, costing US taxpayers millions of dollars every year even while riding roughshod over privacy concerns.


Access to Hemisphere costs local police between $100,000 and more than $1m a year, the documents reveal, and its use requires just an administrative subpoena – a much lower judicial bar than a search warrant because it does not need to be issued by a judge.



https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/25/att-secretly-sells-customer-data-law-enforcement-hemisphere

No need for super secret ninja NSA

AT&T sells it to them for a profit and has been doing so for a long time.

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1. This story should have more traction.

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2. Agreed it should

People apparently don't really care about the data. It was just a convenient outrage.