An Indiana University student has released an audio recording disclosing the degree to which Sprint has been cooperating with law enforcement requests.
Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana Universitys School of Informatics and Computing, has made public an audio recording of Sprint/Nextel's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing how his company has provided GPS location data about its wireless customers to law enforcement over 8 million times, writes Ars Technicas Jon Stokes.
That's potentially millions of Sprint/Nextel customers who not only were probably unaware that their wireless provider even had an Electronic Surveillance Department, but who certainly did not know that law enforcement [officers] could log into a special Sprint Web portal and, without ever having to demonstrate probable cause to a judge, gain access to geolocation logs detailing where they've been and where they are, Stokes adds.
Click here to read the Ars Technica story.
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