[mapt]

At this point, we need more details than that to have any idea what happened. You don't get to use "times" as a word in this context anymore when one "time" can include getting an email service to provide an entire database dump for all customers.

"46 times" could well mean "Set up 46 separate devices throughout the county and collected all calls for four years", or perhaps "Left one device running for 46 contiguous months in the center of town", with the way these people work.

[kyboren]

Sorry to be so flippant, but you know how to click links, right? http://www.nyclu.org/files/20150331-ComplaintInfoReports-000... Most incidents read like, "ASSIST TOWN OF HAMBURG POLICE WITH CELL TRACKING REGARDING OUTBACK ROBBERY ON 09/26/2011, MCKINLEY PKWY, HAMBURG, NY" Some others are even more vague: "ASSISTING NYS POLICE, HOMOCIDE[sic]"

These give the impression that the use is targeted and for a limited time, but of course one can never be sure. I'd like to know:

* For how long was the device used in each incident?

* How was it deployed?

* How many other cellular devices were picked up?

* What happened to the irrelevant data collected?