On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Fred Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/12/sprint-fed-customer-gps-data-to-leos-over-8-million-times.ars > > "Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times > > "A blogger has released audio of Sprint's Electronic Surveillance Manager > describing the carrier's cooperation with law enforcement. Among the > revelations are that Sprint has so far filled over 8 million requests from > LEOs for customer GPS data." > > > Forgive me if this has already been posted. Haven't been keeping up with > traffic here.
This, to my knowledge, has not been posted here previously, and thank you for doing so. However, this is, in general terms, very old news. So old in fact that it is really hardly news anymore at all. The reality is that just about any egregious abuse that can be conjured up by communications providers and government is what will be perpetrated upon the public. Its been widely done and publicized previously in differing flavors. Much of the public became outraged, government looked into it, decided that they liked it very much and "pardoned" the industry for their transgressions. Those previous "pardons" served to tell the comm industries that just about anything along these lines that they do, as long as they are in concert with government, and even if not legal, are acceptable and desirable. Are we not in the Information Age? Does anyone not understand the meaning of that term? Do we not openly refer to our current decade in that manner? Additionally, we are also in a National Security State, replete with our own Department of Homeland Security. Are we not engaged in an unending war that was identified as such by the administration that launched it? How much more evidence of our situation is required for folks to either sheepishly accept our status or to try to do something about it? Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
