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Police Looking at Your Real-Time Web Browsing, Text Messages, Private Pics-Over 1.1 Million “Reported” Requests
WASHINGTON, DC — Police can gain access to your location, your text messages, your conversations, your real-time web browsing activity, and much more.
They contacted cellphone carriers over 1.1 million times last year in order to do so,according to a report released by Edward Markey, a senator.
They often get the data without a warrant depending on the carrier.
It turns out that law enforcement has had access to your private data — financial records, political beliefs, info on friends and relatives, credit score, google searches, etc. — for almost a decade. The latest report from the senator barely scratches the surface.
For example, AT&T gives them your complete texts and voicemails without a warrant.
This news is making the rounds in mainstream media. But it’s critical to bear the following points in mind.
The 1.1 million figure is an egregious underestimation, since not all of the carriers have reported what they give to law enforcement.
The reports do not include the nearly 9,000 “tower dumps” provided to law enforcement, with each dump containing data on potentially hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Many Americans already know that their cellular and internet activity is comprehensively monitored by federal fusion and spy centers. This data is routinely shared with local law enforcement.
Whistleblowing websites have for years made available big lists of internal “Spy Guides”used by Internet and Cellphone companies.
These spy guides are written by the companies for law enforcement and go into excruciating detail on the protocols for collaboration with law enforcement as well as everything that can be shared.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/02/police-looking-at-your-real-time-web-browsing-text-messages-private-pics-over-1-1-million-reported-requests/
