The Drug Enforcement Agency is being sued by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as part of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requisition. EFF is accusing the DEA of withholding confidential documents in a court case that would reveal the details about the government’s another surveillance program called as Hemisphere.
Aaron Mackey, the legal fellow at the EFF, responded that the DEA has failed to comply with its FOIA obligations to make public the relevant details regarding the Hemisphere program. EFF believes that DEA has improperly withheld these records.
EFF also said that it has discovered new documents as part of its FOIA lawsuit which exhibits a dismissive attitude by law enforcement agencies over a regular searching of trillions of AT&T subscribers’ phone records.
The documents uncovered shows that the law enforcements themselves calling the Hemisphere surveillance program as ‘Google on steroids’ or ‘super search engine,’ which Mackey said that they were ‘taken aback’ and ‘the law enforcement’s use of Hemisphere has become natural to them.
