Eight Million Times

That's how often that Sprint provided tracking data to the cops in a one year period.

Sprint is the third place cellular provider, behind Verizon and AT&T. They each have over 80 million customers, Sprint has 48 million. T-Mobile is a distant fourth with 33 million; the resy of the myriad providers are pretty much pissants by comparison.

8 million requests out of 48 million customers. Either Sprint attracts some real hard-cases for its customers or the entire "let the cops track who they want" system is seriously out of whack. I don't buy the "thousands of pings per surveillance order", not unless they were pinging the phones every minute of every hour of every day.

And I have serious doubts that Sprint is demanding warrants from the cops.

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