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Radio News: DEA's Hemisphere Surveillance

Sep 04, 2013: 12am - 12:05 am
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From "Free Speech Radio News": Privacy advocates are raising concerns after Obama Administration officials confirmed a massive surveillance program run by the Drug Enforcement Agency, or DEA, in coordination with AT&T. The program is called Hemisphere and funded by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. It began in 2007 and tracks extensive personal cell phone data, including the location of the caller, according to copies of an internal presentation obtained by an activist in Washington through public information requests and published by the New York Times. Under the program, local and federal law enforcement agencies have access to more than 25 years of personal cell phone information. For more, we’re joined by Hanni Fakhoury, staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.