AT&T and the U.S. Government Found to be Spying on Millions of Users in America for Years

wccftech.com:

It appears that AT&T and the U.S. government are both involved in a government surveillance program; based on the information revealed via leaked police documents, a White House Memo, as well as a letter by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice, all of these things combined, confirm that millions of Americans are being spied on.

The investigation reveals that federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities have been taking part in surveilling millions of U.S. citizens, and this has been going on for over a decade. Dubbed the Data Analytical Services (DAS), the program is used to track call records of criminals and, in addition to that, their friends, friends of their families, and several other people who are not even on the list of suspects. The program was previously called the Hemisphere, and it manages to capture the call data with the help of AT&T, which happens to be one of the largest U.S. carriers.

A White House Memo that was reviewed by Wired also mentions that the President's office aided the program with over $6 million so the calls made using the AT&T infrastructure can be recorded without any issues. Kim Hart, a spokesperson for the carrier, refused to comment on the DAS and mentioned how the company will have to comply with the legal requests.

“While DAS is managed under a program devoted to drug trafficking, a leaked file from the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) shows that local police agencies, such as those in Daly City and Oakland, requested DAS data for unsolved cases seemingly unrelated to drugs."

There are instances mentioned in the report talking about how the police asked for DAS data just so they could identify suspects along with the victims by spying on