{"id":57811,"date":"2009-12-01T18:55:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T23:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=10941"},"modified":"2009-12-01T18:55:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T23:55:16","slug":"is-sprint-and-everyone-else-spying-on-you-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/57811","title":{"rendered":"Is Sprint (and everyone else) spying on you all the time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D10941\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D10941\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7912593&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7912593&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/7912593\">Sprint: 50 million customers, 8 million law enforcement GPS requests in 1 year<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1582178\">Christopher Soghoian<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sprint&#8217;s Manager of Electronic Surveillance has revealed, during a panel discussion at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issworldtraining.com\/ISS_WASH\/\">wiretapping and interception industry conference<\/a>, held in Washington DC in October of 2009, that Sprint served more than 8 million law enforcement requests for GPS data from mobile phones used by subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>With about 48 million subscribers, that&#8217;s one request for every 6 people on the network and amounts certainly to mass surveillance of some kind. <\/p>\n<p>Of course no-one is claiming Sprint is the only carrier engaging in this practice, and who can forget the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Room_641A\" >surveillance rooms at AT&amp;T<\/a> but should make citizens of US wonder if they are really as free as they think they are, and of course brings home that all of us voluntarily carrying a tracking device with us constantly.<\/p>\n<p>Should we be concerned?&#160; Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/paranoia.dubfire.net\/2009\/12\/8-million-reasons-for-real-surveillance.html\">Slight Paranoia<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091201\/1305527152.shtml\">TechDirt<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppcgeeks.com\/2009\/12\/01\/breaking-news-sprint-revealed-gps-data-8-million-times-to-govt\/\" >PPCGeeks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks<\/em> <strong>Sean VanSickle<\/strong><em>&#160; for the tip.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D10941&amp;linkname=Is%20Sprint%20%28and%20everyone%20else%29%20spying%20on%20you%20all%20the%20time%3F\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint: 50 million customers, 8 million law enforcement GPS requests in 1 year from Christopher Soghoian on Vimeo. Sprint&#8217;s Manager of Electronic Surveillance has revealed, during a panel discussion at a wiretapping and interception industry conference, held in Washington DC in October of 2009, that Sprint served more than 8 million law enforcement requests for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}