AT&T provides DEA with 26 years worth of phone call data

[Wireless News]

If Walter White is an AT&T subscriber then he’d better start sweating. The New York Times reports that AT&T has been working very closely with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration to hand over 26 years worth of its customers’ call records. The Times says that while the DEA requests and acquires call records through standard subpoenas, the agency’s close relationship with AT&T may be unnerving to some privacy advocates. Among other things, the Times says that “the government pays AT&T to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country,” and who then “sit alongsidelending deviceDrug Enforcement Administrationlending deviceagents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987.” What’s more, the Times says that

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