Hemisphere Project
The Hemisphere Project, also known as Hemisphere (codenamed Hudson Hawk), is a mass surveillance program conducted by U.S. telecommunications company AT&T and funded by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). == Overview == Hemisphere is a public–private partnership between the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and AT&T, the third-largest provider of mobile telephone services in the US. In 2013 the program was overseen by AT&T employees embedded within the Atlanta head office (two employees) and Houston and Los Angeles regional offices (one employee each) of the ONDCP's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program; these employees' salaries are paid through the ONDCP's HIDTA program, as opposed to by AT&T. AT&T collects metadata relating to all calls routed through AT&T's exchanges, including calls made from non-AT&T handsets.