T-Mobile quietly reported a sharp rise in police demands for cell tower data

guest · Jul 12, 2019

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T-Mobile quietly reported a sharp rise in police demands for cell tower data
July 12, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/12/t-mobile-cell-tower-government-demands/

T-Mobile has reported a small decline in the number of government data requests it receives, according to its latest transparency report, quietly published this week.

But the number of requests for historical call detail records and cell site information, which can be used to infer a subscriber’s location, has risen significantly.
For 2018, the company received 70,224 demands for historical call data, up by more than 9% on the year earlier.

The cell giant also reported that the number of tower dumps went up from 4,855 requests in 2017 to 6,184 requests in 2018, an increase of 27%.
Tower dumps are particularly controversial because these include information for all subscribers whose calls, messages and data went through a cell tower at any given time. That can include the data of hundreds or thousands of innocent subscribers at any time.
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