You Have the Right to Remain Surveilled
Sprint Nextel, has provided law enforcement authorities with the GPS coordinates of its customers some eight million times—apparently without its customers knowing anything about it.
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Sprint insists that subscribers can turn the GPS function off if they wish. But an expert interviewed by TPM says that Sprint can almost certainly reactivate it remotely.
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There is little evidence of the Obama Administration charting a different course, or insisting on accountability for their predecessors.
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It’s reasonably clear that Sprint is not alone. In his paper, Soghoian points to the harmonious relationship that has arisen between telecommunications service providers—oblivious to federal and state criminal law requiring them to protect the privacy of their customers—and the Justice Department.
via Eight Million Reasons for Surveillance Oversight—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine).
Tags: harpers, privacy, scott horton, surveillance, telecommunications
