[Chapter-delegates] Electronic surveillance: 8 million per month?

[Marcin Cieslak]

"Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers'
(GPS) location information over 8 million times between September
2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer
information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of a
new, special web portal for law enforcement officers."

...

"The number of electronic intercept orders [in the U.S.], which are required to
intercept Internet traffic and other computer assisted communications
is surprisingly low. There were just 10 electronic intercept orders
requested in 2008, and only 4 of those were from the Federal
government -- which was itself a massive increase over the one
single order sought by the entire Department of Justice in both
2006 and 2007."

Why only ten? Here it is:

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/12/8-million-reasons-for-real-surveillance.html

--Marcin