US cops blew more than $26m buying cell phone records from telcos

And you thought your data plan was pricy

An investigation by Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) into the monitoring of cellphones has found that US police paid telecommunications companies more than $26m to hand over location information, metadata, and sometimes the content of their customers' messages to cops in the US last year.…

via The Register - Networks

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