Tuesday, December 1, 2009

More Powerful than a Santa Claus GPS

USA - One phone company "provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009."

How did they do it?

Automation... "a new, special web portal for law enforcement officers."


How did this leak out?

A company employee "who described it during a panel discussion at a wiretapping and interception
industry conference, held in Washington DC in October of 2009. " (more) (video)

FutureWatch...
This will become commonplace.