Law enforcement isn’t just interested in what Americans are saying on
the phone or on the Internet. They’re also interested in whom they’re
saying it to–a piece of information that conveniently doesn’t require a
warrant to obtain. And according to newly released documents, the Feds
are surveilling and mapping out those social connections more
pervasively than ever before.
Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union through a Freedom of Information Act Requirement and released Thursday show a massive spike in “non-content” surveillance by federal law enforcement over the last two years, jumping 60% from 23,535 cases in 2009 to 37,616 in 2011. Those “pen register” and “trap and trace” orders, which watch only who a surveillance target communicates with rather than the content of his or her communications and therefore don’t require a warrant, were aimed at more than 80,000 Americans in 2011, a spike that means more Americans’ communications were watched by this type of communication in the last two years than in the entire previous decade, according to the ACLU’s count.
Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/09/27/u-s-law-enforcement-is-tracking-who-calls-texts-and-emails-whom-more-often-than-ever-before/
Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union through a Freedom of Information Act Requirement and released Thursday show a massive spike in “non-content” surveillance by federal law enforcement over the last two years, jumping 60% from 23,535 cases in 2009 to 37,616 in 2011. Those “pen register” and “trap and trace” orders, which watch only who a surveillance target communicates with rather than the content of his or her communications and therefore don’t require a warrant, were aimed at more than 80,000 Americans in 2011, a spike that means more Americans’ communications were watched by this type of communication in the last two years than in the entire previous decade, according to the ACLU’s count.
Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/09/27/u-s-law-enforcement-is-tracking-who-calls-texts-and-emails-whom-more-often-than-ever-before/
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