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Project Hemisphere
The Hemisphere Project, also called simply Hemisphere, is a mass surveillance program conducted by US telephone company AT&T and paid for by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
AT&T employees work alongside the DEA and local law enforcement agencies at High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston, where they supply officials with metadata from a database of telephone calls dating back to 1987. The information is handed over in response to subpoenas, rather than search warrants. The DEA has the power to issue "administrative subpoenas" without involvement of a court. Call detail records are collected for all calls handled by AT&T's switches, not only calls placed by AT&T customers.[4] The records include the caller's location and number around four billion per day. A telephone call may create more than one entry in the database.
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eNews Park Forest
December 21, 2017
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Motley Fool
July 4, 2017
However, a New York Times report from 2013 claims that AT&T retains the details for every call, text message, Skype chat, or other communications which have passed through its network since 1987. That secretive project, called Project Hemisphere, is reportedly funded by the U.S. government. AT&TÃâà...
Mintpress News (blog)
December 30, 2016
(ANALYSIS) — In 2013, The New York Times reported on the existence of a previously unknown data-mining program known as Project Hemisphere. The project was developed in secret by telecommunications giant AT&T and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as a tool to help with “drug-enforcementÃâà...
Washington Examiner (blog)
November 17, 2016
The new revelations come a month after separate documents indicated the company allowed local law enforcement agencies to pay to access Project Hemisphere, a metadata mining program on par with those maintained by the NSA. The documents indicate AT&T was even assigned its own code name,Ãâà...
WIRED
October 29, 2016
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Democracy Now!
October 28, 2016
New details are emerging about how AT&T has been spying on Americans for profit with a secret plan called Project Hemisphere. The Daily Beast reports AT&T is keeping private call records and selling the information to authorities investigating everything from the war on drugs to Medicaid fraud. AT&TÃâà...
Democracy Now!
October 27, 2016
In “Project Hemisphere,” AT&T sells metadata to law enforcement, under the aegis of the so-called war on drugs. A police agency sends in a request for all the data related to a particular person or telephone number, and, for a major fee and without a subpoena, AT&T delivers a sophisticated data set, thatÃâà...
EFF
October 27, 2016
AT&T built a powerful phone surveillance tool for police, called Hemisphere. Every day, AT&T adds four billion call records to Hemisphere, making it one of the largest known reservoirs of communications metadata that the government uses to spy on us. Law enforcement officials kept Hemisphere “underÃâà...
Business Insider
October 25, 2016
AT&T has a secret program called Hemisphere that allows law enforcement to obtain call metadata on targeted individuals without first obtaining a search warrant, according to a new report in The Daily Beast. While Hemisphere was first revealed in 2013 by The New York Times, the Daily Beast reported onÃâà...
New York Times
September 2, 2013
The Hemisphere Project, a partnership between federal and local drug officials and AT&T that has not previously been reported, involves an extremely close association between the government and the telecommunications giant. The government pays AT&T to place its employees in drug-fighting unitsÃâà...
New York Times
September 2, 2013
The Hemisphere Project, a partnership between federal and local drug officials and AT&T that has not previously been reported, involves an extremely close association between the government and the telecommunications giant. The government pays AT&T to place its employees in drug-fighting unitsÃâà...
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