Surveillance requests to cellphone carriers surge

Published July 9, 2012 10:40pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made more than 1.3 million requests for consumers’ cellphone records in 2011, an alarming surge over previous years that reflected the increasingly gray area between privacy and technology.

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