A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.

the White House has, for the past decade, provided more than $6 million to the program, which allows the targeting of the records of any calls that use AT&T’s infrastructure

the program takes advantage of numerous “loopholes” in federal privacy law

the DAS program has been used to produce location information on criminal suspects and their known associates, a practice deemed unconstitutional without a warrant

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  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    While I agree with your statement in general, I think its still early and dangerous to be recommending simplex as a viable alternative. It hasn’t stood the test of time nor been independently audited. I’m keeping my eye on it as it seems like a viable alternative, but I’d hesitate to recommend it to anyone who may be at risk.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      Hence the “may already…” depending on use case obviously. You can’t really recommend anything to someone who may be at risk, certainly not Signal. Not that I have anything against Signal (I use it daily and have been for years) but anonymous it isn’t, not in big part of the world anyway.