8 Million Reasons to Demand Your dotRights

At a recent showcase for surveillance tools, a Sprint/Nextel representative boasted that the company’s automated law enforcement portal has handled more than 8 million requests for GPS-based location information about its customers over a 13 month period (September 2008 to October 2009). The company has responded by stating that the 8 million figure "represents the number of individual 'pings' for specific location information made to the Sprint network" over the given period - but, as EFF points out, this response raises more questions than it answers. And 8 million "pings" is still an enormous amount - especially given the privacy implications of this kind of information.

Location data also says a lot about you – where you go, what you do, and who you know. Sprint/Nextel can track when you go to church, to the library, or to your doctor’s office. Unfortunately, out-of-date privacy laws haven’t kept up with new innovations like GPS that can track where you go. And as today’s news makes clear, the government is taking advantage of these out-of-date laws to collect information about many many Americans.

We can’t let this happen. That’s why we’ve launched the Demand Your dotRights campaign – to pressure companies and lawmakers to protect our personal information and upgrade our privacy protections. Watch our video and learn more about the campaign and how you can join the campaign and take action!

Don’t pay for GPS and other new technology with your private information. Demand upgraded privacy laws that keep pace with new technology. Demand Your dotRights!