“The amount of information you can get from people’s conversations online — it’s insane.”

Lt. Robert Salter, a supervising police detective in Newport, R.I., regarding the large amounts of personal data that law enforcement departments often collect from Big Tech companies, like Apple, Microsoft and Google. Police departments’ requests for user information, including phone calls, texts, emails, photos, browser histories and more, have tripled since 2015. (Associated Press — June 22, 2021)