From Slate
''The nation’s wireless carriers spend a surprising amount of time and energy sharing their customers’ private data with police and the FBI. As we noted earlier this month, those companies fielded upwards of 1.3 million such requests in 2011 alone, dedicating hundreds of full-time employees to telling authorities what their customers were up to. And when asked by U.S. Rep. Ed Markey to disclose the extent of these surveillance programs, some of the companies said they are so busy handing out their users’ data that they don’t have time to keep track of how often they do it.''
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