Sprint denies 'massive' disclosure of customer information2009-12-03 09:18 by DanielaTags: Sprint, privacy
Sprint has denied making a massive disclosure of sensitive information to law enforcement agencies. Indiana University doctoral student and privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian has alleged that Sprint Nextel provided agencies with customer GPS location data over eight 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," he says. "It is unclear if federal law enforcement agencies' extensive collection of geolocation data should have been disclosed to Congress pursuant to a 1999 law that requires the publication of certain surveillance statistics - since the Department of Justice simply ignores the law, and has not provided the legally mandated reports to Congress since 2004." In his blog post, he publishes an audio recording of Paul Taylor, Sprint's Manager of Electronic Surveillance, discussing the company's activities at an industry conference in October. Read more -here-
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