PRIVACY IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: In First U.S. Accounting of Wireless Phone Surveillance, Carriers Reveal 1.3 Million Requests For User Data. “The carriers have access to everything. Phone calls, text messages, search histories, usage histories, locations, elevations, movements over time. As modern people we have mostly chosen to pretend like we aren’t aware of how vulnerable we are. But what information have these law enforcement agencies been after? . . . Then there were ‘tower dumps,’ in which a law enforcement agency makes one request to access all the information from one entire tower. This could allow them access to hundreds or thousands of users. A tower dump, by the way, counts as one of those 1.3 million, even though it affects many, many more.”