Do you use your iphone, google phone, blackberry or nokia smartphone with cool built-in GPS?
Well law enforcement can now know even better where you are, at any time, even with historical data and much better than BTS based location systems.
Sprint has given 8 million times customer’s GPS information to law enforcement (sound something like a semi-automatic request).
Read here.
Nice extract is:
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 informations was provided at wiretapping and interception industry conference ISS WASH in Washingtown.
If you want see directly the video:
Sprint: 50 million customers, 8 million law enforcement GPS requests in 1 year from Christopher Soghoian on Vimeo.
Then you know that “big brother” is watching you only because you let him to watch you.
