AT&T developed a "product" for spying on all its customers and made millions selling it to warrantless cops
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1ZBC5)
AT&T's secret "Hemisphere" product is a database of calls and call-records on all its customers, tracking their location, movements, and interactions -- this data was then sold in secret to American police forces for investigating crimes big and small (even Medicare fraud), on the condition that they never reveal the program's existence. (more")