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Can Police Monitor Phone Calls
More of a revelation was the fact that Apple stores the information for 30 days. Choosing how to send messages is tricky and has caused Apple problems in the past, especially when a user switches from iPhone to Android.
“Without a warrant, the only thing we can access is whatever is on the internet that somebody has out in public,” says Sgt. Eric De Los Santos of the Austin Police Department. “Let’s say you have a Facebook page or an Instagram page and they’re public, we can go into that and look and see what’s inside of that without a warrant because it’s public.”
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As location tracking has become more accurate, and as more people carry their phones at every waking moment, the ability of law enforcement officers and companies like Securus to get that data has become an ever greater privacy concern.
“If this company is, in fact, doing this with our customers’ data, we will take steps to stop it,” said Rich Young, a Verizon spokesman. T-Mobile said it “would take appropriate action” if it found any misuse of data.
Securus, founded in Dallas in 1986, has marketed its location service as a way for officials to monitor where inmates placed calls. Securus has said this would block escape attempts and the smuggling of contraband into jails and prisons, and help track calls to areas “known for generating illegal activity.”
Getting ahold of IP addresses is similar to phone records, in the sense that an officer has to claim an ongoing investigation in order to obtain them. However, officers can wiggle their way around the law with an administrative subpoena if they are looking for historical records.
It’s illegal for police to secretly listen to the phone calls of American citizens without a warrant. However, police officers don’t need the warrant to obtain records of who you called and when you called someone due to a Supreme Court case from 1979, which found that call logs are considered business records and are not protected by the Fourth Amendment.
Latest figures produced by the government-appointed interception of communications commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy, show there were 1,682 interception warrants approved by the home secretary in 2010. Public authorities can request other communications data – such as the date, time and location a phone call was made – without the authority of the home secretary. In 2010, 552,550 such requests were made, averaging around 1,500 per day.
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A document seen by the Guardian shows the Metropolitan police paid £143,455 to Datong for "ICT hardware" in 2008/09. In 2010 the 37-year-old company, which has been publicly listed since October 2005, reported its pro forma revenue in the UK was £3.9m, and noted that "a good position is being established with new law enforcement customer groups". In February 2011 it was paid £8,373 by Hertfordshire Constabulary according to a transaction report released under freedom of information.
"How can a device which invades any number of people's privacy be proportionate?" he said. "There needs to be clarification on whether interception of multiple people's communications – when you can't even necessarily identify who the people are – is complaint with the act. It may be another case of the technology racing ahead of the legislation. Because if this technology now allows multiple tracking and intercept to take place at the same time, I would have thought that was not what parliament had in mind when it drafted Ripa."