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Democratic Rep. Asks Phone Companies to Detail Surveillance Role

HeadlineMay 04, 2012

Democratic Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts has asked the nation’s largest cellphone carriers to provide information on how they have aided police surveillance. In a letter this week to eight companies, Markey, the co-chair of the Congressional Bipartisan Privacy Caucus, said he is “deeply concerned” that routine police tracking of cellphone calls “may violate the privacy rights of Americans.”

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