News release: “What do you think about when choosing a cell phone provider? Their prices? Their coverage area? Whether they have spiffy, high-tech phones? Whether their phones work overseas or in the subway? What about how long they retain information about you and under what circumstances they turn it over to law enforcement? All of the nation’s major mobile carriers are retaining their customers’ location data for at least a year, according to a chart the Department of Justice (DOJ) developed in 2010 — and that the ACLU of North Carolina received in response to our public records request about local law enforcement’s use of cell phone location information. And location info’s not all they hang onto. We gave a copy of this document to Wired.com, which has written about it here.”