WaPo: Court: Warrantless requests to track cellphones, Internet use grew sevenfold in D.C. in three years

WaPo: Court: Warrantless requests to track cellphones, Internet use grew sevenfold in D.C. in three years by Spencer S. Hsu:

The information release for the District shows that as of 2014, requests for Internet activity and phone-location records began to exceed and now far outnumber requests for telephone metadata, such as the timing and duration of calls to or from specific phone numbers.

Requests for records of Internet activity and phone location hovered between 55 and 160 from 2008 to 2013 before jumping to 334 in 2014, 581 in 2015 and 1,136 in 2016, according to this week’s release. By comparison, the D.C. federal court previously reported that metadata requests have ranged from 329 in 2006 to a low of 189 in 2016.

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