With a single wiretap, prosecutors collected 9.2 million text messages

guest · Jun 29, 2019

With a single wiretap, prosecutors collected 9.2 million text messages
June 29, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/29/wiretap-prosecutors-texas/

For four months in 2018, U.S. prosecutors in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly released figures show.
The wiretap, granted by a federal judge in the Southern District of Texas, was granted as part of a narcotics investigation and became the federal wiretap with the most intercepts in 2018, according to the government’s annual wiretap report.

Trailing behind it was another narcotics investigation in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania saw police obtain a three-month wiretap that collected 9.1 million text message from 45 individuals.
The two cases represent the largest wiretap cases seen in years.
But the overall number of wiretaps authorized and subsequent convictions “fell sharply” in 2018, the U.S. Courts said in its annual transparency report.

A total of 2,937 wiretaps were authorized in 2018, down 22% on the year prior. The report also said that number of wiretaps using encryption went up, rendering the wiretap ineffective.
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Wiretap Report 2018

mirimir · Jun 30, 2019

Huh? Nine million texts from ~50 people. That's ~180K texts per person. Is that even possible?

zapjb · Jun 30, 2019

Bet they wiretapped teenagers with drama issues instead of sophisticated drug dealers.

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