The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
Essentially the government has built a surveillance state by outsourcing it to private enterprise.I think it would be interesting to know how people really feel about this. I would love to see a survey that actually truly explained the trade-offs and see how people felt about it, eg avoiding the “ should government be able to subpoena records from private business” but actually ask questions like “is it OK with you that with a subpoena that the government can get a list every website that you have visited?” And then present the trade offs and abuse cases.  I really think that we’ve allowed the surveillance state to form without actually having a meaningful public debate about it.