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AT&T is making millions by selling your phone records to law enforcement

It’s one thing for telecom companies to hand over citizens’ communications metadata when the law requires it, but it’s a whole new ball game when a firm turns that into a business. According to documents obtained by The Daily Beast, that’s exactly what AT&T has done. As part of its Hemisphere program, the phone service giant not only stores metadata (information about who you’ve called and texted, when and from where) that dates back to 2008, but also charges US law enforcement agencies between $100,000 to over $1 million a year to access records stored in its database.

 

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