With a single warrant which was approved in 2016 in the context of a researchς για ναρκωτικά Ομοσπονδιακές αρχές της Αμερικής που δεν κατονομάζονται, παρακολούθησαν και κατέγραψαν millions phone calls.
The command for the telephone monitoring authorized an unknown cybernetic service of America to conduct real-time recordings of 3,29 million mobile phone conversations over a two-month period during 2016, after a request was made in late 2015.
The warrant was signed to help the authorities attend 26 people suspected of drug trafficking in Pennsylvania.
The final amount spent on phone calls reached 335.000 dollars and led to twelve arrests.
However, none of the arrestees were convicted. The revelation was buried in the US court's annual report, published earlier this week.
"Federal wiretapping occurred during a narcotics investigation in the Middle District of Pennsylvania and resulted in the monitoring of 3.292.385 telephone conversations or messages within 60 days", the report states.
The details of the case remain unknown.
But the above news makes it clear that telephone tapping continues to exist and is carried out with great ease in mass using only one warrant.
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Albert Gidari, a former privacy attorney who currently serves as a director at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, criticized the investigation.
"They spent a fortune watching 26 people, they recorded three million conversations and obviously nothing came out," Gidari said.
"I would love to see the possible affidavit for this and I wonder what the court thought."
"I am not surprised by the results because, on average, a very low percentage of conversations lead to guilt and a very small percentage lead to a conviction," he added.