Washington Post: Agencies collected data on Americans’ cellphone use in thousands of ‘tower dumps’

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies conducting criminal investigations collected data on cellphone activity thousands of times last year, with each request to a phone company yielding hundreds or thousands of phone numbers of innocent Americans along with those of potential suspects.Law enforcement made more than 9,000 requests last year for what are called … Continue reading Washington Post: Agencies collected data on Americans’ cellphone use in thousands of ‘tower dumps’