the White House has, for the past decade, provided more than $6 million to the program, which allows the targeting of the records of any calls that use AT&T’s infrastructure
the program takes advantage of numerous “loopholes” in federal privacy law
the DAS program has been used to produce location information on criminal suspects and their known associates, a practice deemed unconstitutional without a warrant
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