White House Surveillance Program Collecting ‘Trillions of Domestic Phone Records’

Published on November 28, 2023

A White House-backed program in partnership with telecom giant AT&T collects phone call records of Americans and provides law enforcement access to the databases. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has raised “serious concerns about the legality of this surveillance program.” On Nov. 20, Mr. Wyden wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland asking for more information about the Hemisphere Project—a “long-running dragnet surveillance program in which the White House pays AT&T to provide all federal, state, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies the ability to request often-warrantless searches of trillions of domestic phone records.” Hemisphere can be used to identify a target’s alternate numbers, location, and phone records of every person who communicated with them....

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