A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
Anyone who thinks that cops and feds are unable to listen to your calls and read your texts whenever they want to (unless you’re using an encrypted messaging system) and haven’t been able to for years is either naive or fooling themselves.
We’re just lucky they need warrants to use them in court. Not that it would stop them from acting extrajudicially if they feel like it.
Anyone who thinks that cops and feds are unable to listen to your calls and read your texts whenever they want to (unless you’re using an encrypted messaging system) and haven’t been able to for years is either naive or fooling themselves.
We’re just lucky they need warrants to use them in court. Not that it would stop them from acting extrajudicially if they feel like it.
They can’t listen to everyone’s calls all the time just yet. A lot of it is retroactive. We’ll be there one day though.
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