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NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day
on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to
top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials,
enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map
their relationships — in ways that would have been previously
unimaginable.
The records feed a vast database that stores information about the
locations of at least hundreds of millions of devices, according to the
officials and the documents, which were provided by former NSA
contractor Edward Snowden. New projects
created to analyze that data have provided the intelligence community
with what amounts to a mass surveillance tool.
The NSA does not target Americans’ location data by design, but the
agency acquires a substantial amount of information on the whereabouts
of domestic cellphones “incidentally,” a legal term that connotes a
foreseeable but not deliberate result.
In scale, scope and potential impact on privacy, the efforts to collect
and analyze location data may be unsurpassed among the NSA surveillance
programs that have been disclosed since June. Analysts can find
cellphones
anywhere in the world, retrace their movements and expose hidden
relationships among individuals using them.
Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html
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