Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
AT&T agreed to provide the DEA with real time access to an unprecedented amount of phone records as part of a recently revealed partnership, The Atlantic reports.
Since 2007, the DEA has had access to every call that goes through AT&T’s switchboard, The Atlantic wrote.
The phone company even provided four employees to help track down suspects.
The access includes phone numbers, time and duration of calls and where the calls were made dating back to 1987.
To put that into perspective, 4 billion call records accumulate every day, the New York Times wrote.
