micdotcom: The Justice Department has been using planes to listen to your phone calls Another
micdotcom:The Justice Department has been using planes to listen to your phone calls Another day, another surveillance scandal for the U.S. government.On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a disturbing exposé on a secret Justice Department spying program that uses a fleet of airplanes to intercept phone calls and scoop up mobile data from thousands of cellphones at a time. According to the Journal, the U.S. Marshals Service program started around 2007 and runs out of at least five metropolitan airports and covers most of the U.S. population.This the first we’re hearing of an airborne operation -- source link
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