There is a secretive surveilence program out ther0e and its been around for many years

BrianKrebs: Boosting Dell Cameron (dell): SCOOP: An obscure White House program surveilling over a *trillion* US call records each year is under fire. Sen. Wyden is challenging its legality, urging DOJ to stop prohibiting him from disclosing info he says will “outrage” Congress.

https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/

We know about various programs out there that allow for surveilence of people outside the U.S. and for certain situations. But even then, while reading this lengthy wired article that we’ll link to shortly, it seemed to me that anyone calling the U.S. from outside the U.S. was surveiled whether they did anything wrong or not.

I could’ve sworn we covered this on the blog when that came out, but I’m not finding it. Despite this, you can probably do searches that will cover that aspect of things and come out with some articles.

Now on to this article. There has been an on again off again program called Data Analytical Services or DAS.

Unlike these other programs, this particular program was designated a whitehouse program and is not subjected to the scrutiny of other programs.

This program also takes in to account that it collects all kinds of traffic going across AT&T and its vast network, and all kinds of law enforcement can access it through a subpoena if nothing else.

No call recordings are made available, but the most important thing that can be made available to us that we do know is that all kinds of location data is sent to law enforcement and for anything they ever want.

There’s a lengthy letter at the end that Wired has from the senator who is questioning this program. Of course, my network may be familiar with senator Ron Wyden and his championship of making sure privacy is followed to the best of our ability.

Instead of me tearing the article apart, as there may be linking available within it, why not read it and the accompanying article? Its titled 3 1:25 PM
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Pho and it was quite interesting.

If you’ve read the article, what did you think?

Just to end this, this program surveils a trillion phone records each and every year, take that to the bank. I’m sure that this may be braught up on a future podcast, although the article is lengthy including the letter which is diagnosed and talked about throughout the piece.