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Documents show AT&T secretly sells customer data to law enforcement

Posted on October 25, 2016June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Nicky Woolf reports:

Telecommunications giant AT&T is selling access to customer data to local law enforcement in secret, new documents released on Monday reveal.

The program, called Hemisphere, was previously known only as a “partnership” between the company and the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for the purposes of counter-narcotics operations.

Read more on The Guardian.

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