AT&T wants the NSA to have a warrant when asking for location data — androidauthority.com

For years now, AT&T, Verizon and other telecom companies have handed over customer information to the NSA whenever asked. Even today, AT&T and Verizon are still being asked to hand over massive amounts of customer information. During the first six months of 2014, Verizon and AT&T were asked to hand over customer information a total of 265,000 times by law enforcement. Now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that AT&T may in fact tell the NSA that in the future if the government agency wants a cellphone users’ location, they will need to get a warrant. At the moment,聽the NSA legally is able to request location data on a customer without a warrant (though they still do need a judge’s permission) due to a past Supreme Court case which was written in the 1970’s and says that “phone records” were business records held by the phone companies and not private documents.

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