{"id":3331,"date":"2016-10-26T00:31:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T07:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2020-08-06T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:00:00","slug":"att-actually-sells-leads-dea-local-law-enforcement-using-project-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/att-actually-sells-leads-dea-local-law-enforcement-using-project-hemisphere\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T actually sells leads to DEA and local law enforcement using Project Hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

AT&T has been running a for-profit mass surveillance program, called Project Hemisphere,\u00a0since 2007. Everybody already knows about AT&T cooperation with NSA mass surveillance metadata database\u2026 This is a separate program that allows law enforcement to access all of AT&T\u2019s data at will, even though the information is never handled by law enforcement, which apparently makes it legal. The Project Hemisphere mass surveillance program was created by AT&T and specifically marketed to law enforcement as an easy-to-use system<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wondering what information that AT&T could possibly have on you if you\u2019ve never been an AT&T customer, AT&T has compiled all the relevant phone metadata that passed through their hardware\u00a0that they possibly could since the 1980s. AT&T has a metadata record of\u00a0everything from Skype calls to text messages to phone calls on LTE<\/a>, not just the ones that were made to or from AT&T networks; either, but all of them that ever touched an AT&T owned switch. If you\u2019re wondering what percentage of American switches are owned by AT&T, the answer is over 75%.<\/p>\n

The new documents (including invoices for AT&T\u2019s help \u201cidentifying and analyzing telecommunication data\u201d) examined by\u00a0The Daily Beast<\/a> show specifics about how AT&T\u2019s Project Hemisphere allows law enforcement from across America to have access to all of their compiled databases\u00a0since July of 2008 without<\/em> a warrant. Instead of requiring a warrant and reasonable suspicion to search your phone records, law enforcement can use AT&T\u2019s data by simply promising not to reveal Project Hemisphere as the source\u00a0when they finally go to court.<\/p>\n

The flow of new leads from AT&T to law enforcement is an unprecedented breach of consumer privacy. Christopher Soghoian, a technology policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), told The Daily Beast:<\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies have to give this data to law enforcement upon request, if they have it. AT&T doesn\u2019t have to data-mine its database to help police come up with new numbers to investigate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AT&T\u2019s Project Hemisphere\u00a0is a\u00a0for-profit mass surveillance cash cow<\/h2>\n

Project Hemisphere was first brought to the public light in 2013 by The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0in an expose on law enforcement use of. Back then, it was assumed that\u00a0was just one of many projects revealed\u00a0between large tech or telecommunication companies and the US government. That year also saw a wave of revelations from Edward Snowden about\u00a0projects such as PRISM and XKeyscore that revealed the extreme measures that the NSA used to eavesdrop on our communications. Things like fiber optic cable bugs in the middle of the ocean, national security letters, and a secret court. Tech companies tried. Now, The Daily Beast documents have revealed\u00a0that AT&T didn\u2019t do this because they were compelled by the US government; rather, they did it for profit reasons. AT&T built up the program and worked with law enforcement across the country with tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. As one example, Harris County in Houston, Texas has paid more than $1 million to Project Hemisphere over the last 9 years for access to AT&T\u2019s surveillance service.<\/p>\n

According to The Daily Beast, AT&T uses Project Hemisphere\u00a0to generate leads that are passed onto local law enforcement for anything from tax fraud to drug dealing. Law enforcement then investigate these leads through conventional methods such as tailing, even though their entire investigation is based on a 4th amendment violation.\u00a0What this has led to is court cases where the \u201cevidence\u201d used to convict the defendant is not available for\u00a0scrutiny as one might expect in normal legal proceedings. In fact, AT&T has the US government all but perjure itself by encouraging the use parallel reconstructionism to describe how they started the investigation in the first place.<\/p>\n

Adam Schwartz, lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF<\/a>) described the danger:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026this is the first time I\u2019ve seen an AT&T document which requires parallel construction in a service to government. It\u2019s very troubling and not the way law enforcement should work in this country.<\/p>\n

At a minimum there is a very serious question whether they should be doing it without a warrant. A benefit to the parallel construction is they never have to face that crucible. Then the judge, the defendant, the general public, the media, and elected officials never know that AT&T and police across America funded by the White House are using the world\u2019s largest metadata database to surveil people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks to the efforts of digital rights groups around the world, people are now learning\u00a0about AT&T\u2019s mass surveillance.\u00a0It\u2019s worth remembering that AT&T has been working\u00a0with the US government to undermine your privacy since at least 2003 with the Room 641A incident.\u00a0AT&T has much to answer for.<\/p>\n

Ironically,\u00a0AT&T\u2019s privacy policy<\/a>\u00a0still claims\u00a0these untrue words:<\/p>\n

We will not sell your personal information to anyone, for any purpose. Period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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