[Infowarrior] - 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight

[Richard Forno]

8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight

Christopher Soghoian

Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its  
customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between  
September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive  
customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint  
of a new, special web portal for law enforcement officers.

The evidence documenting this surveillance program comes in the form  
of an audio recording of Sprint's Manager of Electronic Surveillance,  
who described it during a panel discussion at a wiretapping and  
interception industry conference, held in Washington DC in October of  
2009.

It is unclear if Federal law enforcement agencies' extensive  
collection of geolocation data should have been disclosed to Congress  
pursuant to a 1999 law that requires the publication of certain  
surveillance statistics -- since the Department of Justice simply  
ignores the law, and has not provided the legally mandated reports to  
Congress since 2004. [More]

All of the mp3 audio recordings & pdf FOIA scans included on this page  
can be found in this .zip file (100Mb). Please mirror!

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/12/8-million-reasons-for-real-surveillance.html