[privacy] Police Got Phone Data From Data Brokers

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Yahoo! News (AP).

[snip]

Numerous federal and local law enforcement agencies have bypassed
subpoenas and warrants designed to protect civil liberties and gathered
Americans' personal telephone records from private-sector data brokers.

These brokers, many of whom advertise aggressively on the Internet,
have gotten into customer accounts online, tricked phone companies into
revealing information and even acknowledged that their practices
violate laws, according to documents gathered by congressional
investigators and provided to The Associated Press.

The law enforcement agencies include offices in the Homeland Security
Department and Justice Department — including the FBI and U.S.
Marshal's Service — and municipal police departments in California,
Colorado, Florida, Georgia and Utah. Experts believe hundreds of other
departments frequently use such services.

[snip]

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060620/ap_on_bi_ge/police_phone_data

- ferg


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