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You are here: Home > News and Commentary > Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records

Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records

November 26, 2023

Wired.com

A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.

A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality.

https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/

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