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.

the White House has, for the past decade, provided more than $6 million to the program, which allows the targeting of the records of any calls that use AT&T’s infrastructure

the program takes advantage of numerous “loopholes” in federal privacy law

the DAS program has been used to produce location information on criminal suspects and their known associates, a practice deemed unconstitutional without a warrant

(This website is a bit annoying.)

  • SakiOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Just now (~ 1 hr ago), EFF also recommended Signal.

    https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal How to: Use Signal | Surveillance Self-Defense Last Reviewed: October 31, 2023

    Signal is a free and open-source application for Android, iOS, and desktop that employs end-to-end encryption to keep communications safe. Signal has certified to courts that it only maintains two types of user data available to law enforcement: timestamps of when each account was created and the date that each account last connected to the Signal service.

    (I also agree with you about simplex, still too early and iffy.)