State and local law enforcement agencies have taken a page from the U.S. National Security Agency’s book using consumer cellphone data for surveillance, prompting lawmakers to consider legislation to protect consumer data privacy.
Cellphone data is attractive to law enforcement agencies for its capacity to track phone calls as well as where those calls were made, which can identify possible suspects, open up new lines of investigation and solve crimes, according to Bryan Bender for the Boston Globe. They’re making good use of it, too: New industry figures show wireless carriers regularly give state and local law enforcement authorities thousands of records of calls and user locations. These records were accessed more than a million times last year, according to data from the eight largest wireless providers, Bender writes.
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