Legal Opinion
Electronic Privacy Information Center v. United States Drug Enforcement Agency
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 24, 2016No. Civil Action No. 2014-0317PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Emmet G. Sullivan, United States District Judge
The United States government collects data on nearly four billion telephone calls eveiy day. The data is added to a database used by the Hemisphere Project (“Hemisphere”), a program utilized by multiple government agencies. Defendant the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (“the DEA”), utilizes Hemisphere in cooperation with private corporations to combat illicit drug activity. Although the existence of Hemisphere was widely reported in 2013, details of the program remain unknown.
In February 2014, Plaintiff Electronic Privacy…
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