It's always the same senator. It should be very concerning that you have only one person in Congress who has fought against mass surveillance over the years.
What’s the term (may be colloquial) when law enforcement obtains information illegally but figure out how to fake or back fill the reason they know it so it becomes plausible in court they obtained the information legally?<p>It would be a more certain bet that they’ve done this with the AT&T surveillance than putting money in any cryptocurrency.
AT&T use to publish bits about the data management technology for their call data records, called Daytona: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140610135457/http://www.research.att.com/~daytona/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20140610135457/http://www.resear...</a>
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From Wyden's letter:<p><pre><code> "The Houston HIDTA officials told my staff that all Hemisphere requests are sent to a single AT&T analyst located in Atlanta, Georgia, and that any law enforcement officer working for one of the federal, state, local and Tribal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. can contact the AT&T Hemisphere analyst directly to request they run a query, with varying authorization requirements. The Houston HIDTA officials confirmed that Federal and state law enforcement agencies can request a Hemisphere search with a subpoena, which is a directive that many law enforcement agencies can issue themselves (except in California and Texas, where a court order is required by state law). They also explained that Hemisphere searches are not required to be in support of drug-related investigations."
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<a href="https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_hemisphere_surveillance_letter_112023.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_hemisphere_...</a>