Bush Admin Uses Creepy Online Ph Record Brokers To Get YOUR Ph Records

[kpete]

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Bush administration using creepy online phone records brokers to get YOUR phone records without a search warrant
by John in DC - 6/20/2006 10:43:00 AM


Surprise surprise surprise. Remember that story we helped explode back in January about how your phone records were for sale online to ANYONE for $100? We even bought General Wesley Clark's cell phone records http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/americablog-just-bought-general-wesley.html to prove the point. As a result, there was a big media uproar http://pda.physorg.com/lofi-news-records-phone-legislation_65370044.html, the US House passed legislation unanimously, 409-0, to fix the problem, and the Senate was even considering legislation.

Well, today we learn http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060620/ap_on_bi_ge/police_phone_data that the federal government and local police were using these questionably-legal online data brokers to get YOUR private phone records without the necessary search warrants.

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....

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.

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It's funny, in a way, that the American people were only marginally concerned about Bush's domestic spying but then they freaked out over the cell phone records story in January. Now the two stories are one. This should get very interesting.

more at:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/06/bush-administration-using-creepy.html

[peacetalksforall]

1. Someone should graph these reversal of rights - we are going

backwards to posses and trials by hangings and burnings. Our precious jury and trial system has been hijacked by people working for the barons.