Justice Department Expands Hunt for Data on Cellphones
Cellphones seem to be increasingly attractive to the Department of Justice, documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show. Agencies affiliated with the department used more than 37,600 court orders in 2011 to gather cellphone data, a sharp increase from previous years. They were almost equally divided between “pen register” data, which captures outgoing phone numbers, and “trap and trace” orders, which refer to incoming phone numbers, which means one phone could have two separate orders associated with it.
The total number has roughly doubled since 2007, when cellphone communications were more limited.
By law, the data can be obtained without a search warrant establishing probable cause, though the authorities do need to tell a court that it is relevant to an investigation. To get a wiretap that allows authorities to actually listen in on the contents of a call has higher legal barriers; law enforcement officials have to convince an impartial judge of probable cause.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/justice-department-expands-hunt-for-data-on-cellphones/
Obama’s NSA eavesdropping goes beyond that of Bush... after campaigning on the promise of: “ No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me!”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html
headlines read: “NSA Exceeds Legal Limits In Eavesdropping Program”, “ U.S. phone intercepts go beyond legal limits” , and “NSA Found Improperly Spying on Americans”.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123985123667923961.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idUKTRE53F09820090416
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/justice-dept-nsa-improperly-spied-americans/
I’ve heard the claim that only 300 phones were monitored and that it stopped attacks (without knowing the content of the calls).
I call double bullstalin. It was a data sweep of all customers and mere “networking” of who’s contacting whom does not stop attacks.
But it does help build the type of voter database that Maxine Waters blabbed about in 2012.
Of course he doesn’t.
Wonder if NSA taps his phones.
OTOH, his Blackberry was specially modified to prevent eavesdropping.
Obama is a liar!
He doesn’t have to— he has Valerie Jarrett in the office next door, same set of buttons.
ring ring
ObamaPhone. How can I snoop on ya today?
uhhh,, when will my oysters Rockafellar arrive?
soon, my dear, soon.
Obama does not feel Americans have any privacy. Or constitutional rights. They are dhimmis.
Says the man who sealed all his records.
That’s because he doesn’t believe you have any privacy or a right to any.
We have met the Obama Administration, and found where al-Qa’ida is hiding. America surrenders.
Of course he doesn’t. In Newspeak “privacy” means “murdering your unborn child” and is a right only women are accorded.
0bamaDontCare.
F Obama and what he “feels”.
He is rapidly destroying a free America.
Now we have government monitoring of citizen phonecalls and e-mails and cars and credit and taxes and what not. Obama is America’s first tyrant.
Sorry pal, but objective number 2 in the coming revolution will be the utter destruction of this data base. It is a threat to every Americans security. Objective number 1 of course will be restoring the constitution as the supreme law of the land.