AT&T Partnered With DEA to Provide Access to 26 Years of Phone Records
Taylor Berman · 09/01/13 10:45PMSince at least 2007, DEA agents and local police detectives have had regular access to a gigantic database that contains detailed records of every American phone call that's passed through an AT&T switch in the past 26 years. The program, named the Hemisphere Project, also pays AT&T employees to work alongside drug-enforcement officers stationed in three states.