Showing posts with label Vast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vast. Show all posts

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Hobby Lobby"s Secret Agenda: How It"s Quietly Funding a Vast Right-Wing Movement

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Hobby Lobby"s Secret Agenda: How It"s Quietly Funding a Vast Right-Wing Movement

Monday, September 2, 2013

Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s


SCOTT SHANE and COLIN MOYNIHAN
NY Times
Sept 2, 2013


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 — parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency’s hotly disputed collection of phone call logs.


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.


The government pays AT&T to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987.


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.


Full article here


This article was posted: Monday, September 2, 2013 at 5:48 am









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Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s