America’s major mobile phone companies received over 1.3 million requests from law enforcement agencies for user information in 2011 alone, and complied with many of them, according to the results of a Congressional investigation published Monday.Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), co-chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, sent letters to nine of America’s largest wireless carrier companies — including market leaders AT&T, Verizon Sprint and T-Mobile — after reading a report in The New York Times in April declaring that law enforcement requests for cell user data have become “routine” in recent years.
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