https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/22/wyden_hemisphere_letter/

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US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant

A senator has alleged that American law enforcement agencies snoop on US citizens and residents, seemingly without regard for the privacy provisions of the Fourth Amendment, under a secret program called the Hemisphere Project that allows police to conduct searches of trillions of phone records.

Under Hemisphere, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy pays telco AT&T to provide all federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies with the ability to request searches of trillions of domestic phone records dating back to at least 1987, plus the four billion call records added every day.

Privacy advocates have filed Freedom of Information Act and state-level public records lawsuits to learn more about the secret snooping program.

Few have made a dent: it appears that the Feds are doing everything they can to keep Hemisphere secret.

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Scratch the surface of the Shithole States of America and it turns out it's no better than China, Russia, or North Korea.

It's just another case of abusing citizen's constitutional rights being okay when the self-designated Good Guys do it.

While anti-Democrat propagandists will pretend this is typical of the Biden administration, it was in place and active during Trump's term and established long before then.

It is likely one of the many schemes and scams put in place post 9-11 as Republicans seized their opportunity to secretly spy on American citizens, take away their rights, and turn America into a de facto police state.